04-MAY-63.3 (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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: Bellevue Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C2 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 73084: 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
massive
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora ramosa Dorbigny 1850
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam