04-MAY-45.0B (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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 (450.2 - 449.6 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 73073: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
bifoliate
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis Foerste 1910
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki Foerste 1910 trilobite