Talawanda Creek, N of Oxford (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Four Mile Creek, Tallawanda Creek

Where: Preble County, Ohio (39.6° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whitewater Formation, Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• "Lower Whitewater Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone

• " [...] normal marine shallow water conditions [...] "
• " [...] irregularly bedded, very fossiliferous limestones [...] "

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 88099: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 01.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• see comments on lithology
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras eos Hall and Whitfield 1875
MU 382T (hypotype)