04-MAD3-0.0A (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Indiana (38.8° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 59.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liberty Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 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 73087: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora ramosa Dorbigny 1850
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite