Laugherty Creek (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• "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. The Whitewater Formation [...] represent[s] the return of more normal marine shallow water conditions to the area [...] "

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
 Actinocerida - Greenlandoceratidae
Richmondoceras brevicameratum n. gen. n. sp. Frey 1995
MU 398T (holotype)