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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 73085: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

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