Also known as Laughery Creek, Versailles, Osgood
Where: Ripley County, Indiana (39.1° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 58.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Saluda Formation, Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• text says Whitewater Fm.; explanation of plate says Saluda Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
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 87957: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 29.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Richmondoceras brevicameratum n. gen. n. sp.
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