Where: Mason County, Kentucky (38.5° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 60.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Auburn Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• C3 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 73105: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850
Platystrophia ponderosa Foerste 1909 | |
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Crinoidea | |
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily |