Garr Hill area, N of Brookville (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection IND-3

Where: Franklin County, Indiana (39.5° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saluda Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• "Tongue of the Saluda Formation and overlying Whitewater Formation."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomitic limestone and shelly/skeletal limestone

• "Hatfield (1968) described the Saluda Formation as being deposited under very shallow-water, possibly hypersaline, lagoonal conditions that developed behind an initially northward-advancing and then southward-retreating coral-sponge bank."
• Saluda Fm.: "sparsely fossiliferous dolomitic limestone and calcitic dolostone";

•Whitewater Fm.: "irregularly bedded, very fossiliferous limestones"

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 87931: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 29.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras shideleri
Diestoceras shideleri Foerste 1924
MU 429T