Harpers Run, T. duseri bed: Richmondian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Cyphotrypa clarksvillensis
Frey 1987 2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras fosteri (Miller 1875)
Frey 1995 7 specimens
MU 418T, 17178 (suite of 6 specimens)
Treptoceras duseri (Hall and Whitfield 1875)
Treptoceras cincinnatiensis (Miller 1875)
Frey 1995 7 specimens
MU 424T to 426T, 17186 (suite of 4 specimens)
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites subcompressus (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
Frey 1987 2 specimens
recombined as Sinuites subcompressa
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia suberecta
Frey 1987 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya miamiensis Hall and Whitfield 1875
Frey 1987 9 specimens
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Psiloconcha grandis Ulrich 1894
Frey 1987 1 specimen
Cymatonota semistriata Ulrich 1893
Frey 1987 2 specimens
Pholadomorpha pholadiformis (Hall 1851)
Frey 1987 2 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste 1910)
Frey 1987 6 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus maximus Locke 1838
Frey 1987 2 specimens
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium granulosum
Frey 1987 2 specimens
unclassified
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
Frey 1987 rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Warren
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 84.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.8° South, 57.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Blackriveran
Key time interval:Richmondian Conodont zone: Aphelognathus grandis
Age range of interval:449.80000 - 446.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waynesville Member:Fort Ancient
Local section:Harpers Run Local bed:T. duseri shale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Unit located about 11-13 m above Arnheim-Waynesville contact.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Massive blue claystone.
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: Deeper-water, low-energy, mud-bottom environment. Heavily oxygenated.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:27500
Authorizer:S. Holland, P. Wagner, B. Kröger Enterer:T. Hanson, T. Liebrecht, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-12-07 13:16:50 Last modified:2018-04-03 19:56:00
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-07 13:16:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7571. R. C. Frey. 1988. Paleoecology of Treptoceras duseri (Michelinoceratida, Proteoceratidae) from Late Ordovician of southwestern Ohio. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 44:79-101 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]

Secondary references:

11467 R. C. Frey. 1987. The occurrence of pelecypods in early Paleozoic epeiric-sea environments, Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Palaios 2(1):3-23 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
24575 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]