Road cut at east edge of Versailles (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection IND-5

Where: Ripley County, Indiana (39.1° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 58.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Nautiloid specimens come from a "Slabby micritic limestone beds above the main Tetradium biostrome."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomitic lime mudstone

• "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. general description: "sparsely fossiliferous dolomitic limestone and calcitic dolostone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

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 87944: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 29.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Gorbyoceras hammelli
Gorbyoceras hammelli Foerste 1910
MU 408T