03-LKR-AE (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Ohio (39.3° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 60.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 72826: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
bifoliate
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras sp. Flower 1942