Caesar's Creek Spillway/Flat Fork Falls (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Ohio (39.5° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Richmondian Group, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.4 Ma)

• Arnheim, Waynesville, and Liberty formations; C4-C5 sequences

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

• some specimens also collected in the field

Primary reference: B. C. Klingensmith. 2007. GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella. [A. Stigall/A. Stigall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78507: authorized by Alycia Stigall, entered by Alycia Stigall on 07.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena nutans Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomena vetusta James 1874
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina ponderosa Hayes and Ulrich 1903
2 individuals
Leptaena richmondensis Foerste 1909
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Rhynchotrema denatum" = Rhynchotrema dentatum, Hiscobeccus capax, "Lepidocyclus perlamellosum" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa
"Rhynchotrema denatum" = Rhynchotrema dentatum Hall 1847
Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosum" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa Whitfield 1878
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875
2 individuals
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus, Retrorsirostra carleyi
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus Hall 1847
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis insculpta Hall 1847
3 individuals
 Atrypida - Anazygidae