Cricket Holler Camp, N of Dayton (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection OH-13

Where: Montgomery County, Ohio (39.8° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 57.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bull Fork Formation, Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; claystone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• " [...] deposited in deeper water, lower-energy environments, [...]. Water depths were below fair-weather wave base but within the zone of storm-current reworking, [...] "
• " [...] interbedded, thin, fossiliferous packstone and shale [...] "

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the USNM

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 88069: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 31.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• see comments on lithology
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Beloitoceras amoenum Miller 1879
USNM 468668