Stonelick Creek, W of Newtonsville (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection OH-4

Where: Clermont County, Ohio (39.2° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 59.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Corryville Member (Grant Lake Formation), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; shelly/skeletal limestone and shale

• " [...] somewhat deeper water, lower energy, bottom conditions [...] "
• " [...] irregularly bedded, poorly sorted fossiliferous limestone, extends northward into southwestern Ohio, where it contains more shale [...]"

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 88027: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 30.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras byrnesi