Brookville Lake dam (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection IND-2

Where: Franklin County, Indiana (39.4° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bull Fork Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• "'Waynesville and Liberty biofacies'."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; claystone and shelly/skeletal limestone

• " [...] deposited in deeper water, lower-energy environments, [...]. Water depths were below fair-weather wave base but within the zone of storm-current reworking, [...] "
• " [...] interbedded clay shale and thin fossiliferous limestone [...]. Preserved faunas contains diverse, abundant brachiopods, bryozoans, corals, stromatoporoids, gastropods, nautiloids, pelecypods, ostracodes, trilobites, and crinoids."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University

Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87929: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 29.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

• see comments on lithology
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Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Spatiopora sp.
Spatiopora sp. Ulrich 1882
encrusting on specimen of T. cincinnatiensis; no number of specimens/individuals given
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras cincinnatiensis
Treptoceras cincinnatiensis Miller 1875
MU 427T