Where: Washington County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 62.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Clays Ferry Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• C1 sequence
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72738: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847 | |
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Sowerbyella rugosa Meek 1873 | |
Crinoidea | |
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily | |
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily |