04-LKR-GA (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Ohio (39.3° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 57.8° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Fort Ancient Member (Waynesville Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 73035: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Iocrinus sp. Hall 1866 Sea lily
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
thin_ramose
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Polychaeta
 Cuniculepadida - Lepidocoleidae
Lepidocoleus sp. Faber 1886 scale worm
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki Foerste 1910 trilobite