03-GT-H (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Brown County, Ohio (38.9° N, 83.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.1° S, 114.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Auburn Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C3 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, 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 72821: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
thin_ramose
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora ramosa Dorbigny 1850
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail