Devil's Backbone (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Preble County, Ohio (39.6° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: museum: CiNHM

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 78825: authorized by Alycia Stigall, entered by Alycia Stigall on 18.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosum" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa, "Rhynchotrema denatum" = Rhynchotrema dentatum, Hiscobeccus capax
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosum" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa Whitfield 1878
"Rhynchotrema denatum" = Rhynchotrema dentatum Hall 1847
Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
3 individuals
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus
"Plaesiomys subquadrata" = Plaesiomys subquadratus Hall 1847
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847
2 individuals
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia annieana" = Vinlandostrophia annieana Foerste 1910
2 individuals