04-MAD2-A (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Indiana (38.8° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 59.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• C5 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore 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 73100: 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
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthoconic
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorphidae indet. Miller 1877 clam
Crinoidea
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Iocrinus sp. Hall 1866 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily