Brookville Lake Causeway (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Indiana (39.5° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 60.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Richmondian Group, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)

• Liberty, Waynesville, and Whitewater formations; C5 sequence

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: some specimens collected in the field and museum: MUGM

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 78601: authorized by Alycia Stigall, entered by Alycia Stigall on 11.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis insculpta Hall 1847
2 individuals
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena nutans Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina ponderosa Hayes and Ulrich 1903
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae