Dodge's Creek (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Oxford

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whitewater Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• " [...] strata located 2 m above the main body of the Saluda Tongue (above the Tetradium Zone) within the thin, slabby fossiliferous limestones of the White- water Formation (Upper Ordovician, Richmondian)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; tabular limestone

• " [...] shallow subtidal marine conditions with relatively low rates of sedimentation."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected by P. H. Dunn

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University

Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1981. Narthecoceras (Cephalopoda) from the Upper Ordovician (Richmondian) of Southwest Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 55(6):1217-1224 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89538: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 29.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Protarea sp.
Protarea sp.
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Narthecoceratidae
Narthecoceras dunni n. sp.
Narthecoceras dunni n. sp. Frey 1981
MU 262T (holotype)
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Ceramoporella sp.
Ceramoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
 Cyclostomata - Corynotrypidae
Corynotrypa sp.
Corynotrypa sp. Bassler 1911
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Monticulipora sp., Mesotrypa sp.
Monticulipora sp. d'Orbigny 1850
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
Mesotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp.
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Lophiostromatidae
Dermatostroma sp.
Dermatostroma sp. Parks 1910 stromatoporoid sponge
encrusting on shell of Narthecoceras dunni
 Ichnofossils -
Vermiforichnus cf. clarkei
Vermiforichnus cf. clarkei Cameron 1969
borings in the shell of Narthecoceras dunni