04-MAY-37.0A (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Mason County, Kentucky (38.7° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairview Formation, Maysvillian (452.0 - 449.5 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 73068: 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 meeki Foerste 1910 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis Foerste 1910
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
bifoliate
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam