04-WU3-B (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Adams County, Ohio (38.8° N, 83.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 57.7° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whitewater Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, 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 72953: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Holtedahlina sulcata Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea Goldfuss 1832 oyster
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite