Dodges Creek (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Butler County, Ohio (39.5° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 60.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Liberty, and Whitewater formations; Upper Whitewater zone; C5-C6 sequences

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

• add'l 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 78635: authorized by Alycia Stigall, entered by Alycia Stigall on 12.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847
2 individuals
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia annieana" = Vinlandostrophia annieana Foerste 1910
Platystrophia acutilirata Conrad 1842
2 individuals
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella alveata Foerste 1909
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847
3 individuals
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus Hall 1847
4 individuals
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis insculpta Hall 1847
2 individuals
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Rhynchotrema denatum" = Rhynchotrema dentatum, Hiscobeccus capax
"Rhynchotrema denatum" = Rhynchotrema dentatum Hall 1847
2 individuals
Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
2 individuals
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eochonetes clarksvillensis Foerste 1912
2 individuals