Where: Ripley County, Indiana (38.9° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 58.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Saluda Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomitic lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 87967: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 29.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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