near Eastfork Lake, Clermont County (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Clermont County, Ohio (39.0° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 58.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fairview Formation (Maysvillian Group), Cincinnatian (451.0 - 443.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 2007. Two Late Ordovician asteroids (Echinodermata) with characters suggestive of early ophiuroids. Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1476-1485 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91152: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Euaxosida - Platanasteridae
Phyrtosaster casteri n. gen. n. sp.
Phyrtosaster casteri n. gen. n. sp. Blake 2007 sea star