03-MR-16.0C (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 60.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairview Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C2 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal 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 72791: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily