Treptoceras duseri sh (claystone), Waynesville Fm.: Richmondian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Atraktoprion sp.
p %-specimens
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846
0-1.0 %-specimens
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
p %-specimens
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium sp. Hall 1847
0-3.5 %-specimens
unclassified
Ancienta sp. (Ross 1967)
p %-specimens
Ancientia
Scyphozoa - Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia sp.
p %-specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
6.0-12 %-specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Platycoryphe sp. Foerste 1919
p %-specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
13-17 %-specimens
Polychaeta - Eunicida - Ramphoprionidae
Ramphoprion sp. Kielan-Jaworowska 1962
p %-specimens
originally entered as "Rhamphoprion sp."
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Trematis sp. Sharpe 1848
p-3.5 %-specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulops sp. Hall 1871
2.0-14 %-specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
p %-specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928
p %-specimens
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
p %-specimens
Gymnolaemata - Ctenostomata - Ropalonariidae
Ropalonaria sp. Ulrich 1879
p %-specimens
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Cyphotrypa sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1904
p-4.0 %-specimens
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Palescharidae
Paleschara sp.
p %-specimens
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Spatiopora sp. Ulrich 1882
p %-specimens
2 species
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora sp. Singh 1979
p %-specimens
Tentaculita - Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
p %-specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Cleidophorus sp. Hall 1847
0-6 %-specimens
synonym of Nuculites
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Caritodens sp.
p-3 %-specimens
synonym of Pterinea
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
1.0-18 %-specimens
2 species
Anomalodonta sp. Miller 1874
p %-specimens
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
0-12 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Rhytimya sp. Ulrich 1893
p %-specimens
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Corallidomus sp. Whitfield 1895
p-24 %-specimens
Cymatonota sp. Ulrich 1893
0-5.5 %-specimens
Psiloconcha sp. Ulrich 1894
0-5 %-specimens
synonym of Cymatonota
2 species
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847
p %-specimens
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
0-5 %-specimens
Pholadomorpha sp. Foerste 1914
4.0-10 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896
3.5-13 %-specimens
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
Manitoulinoceras sp. Foerste 1924
p %-specimens
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Oncoceras sp. Hall 1847
p %-specimens
Cephalopoda - Ascocerida - Ascoceratidae
Schuchertoceras sp. Miller 1932
p %-specimens
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Cameroceras sp. Conrad 1842
p %-specimens
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Isorthoceras sp. Flower 1962
p %-specimens
Gorbyoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
p %-specimens
Treptoceras sp. Flower 1942
3.5-20.5 %-specimens
Crinoidea - Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Iocrinus sp. Hall 1866
p %-specimens
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Mastigograptidae
Mastigograptus sp. Ruedemann 1908
p %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 83.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.8° South, 57.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Richmondian
Key time interval:Richmondian
Age range of interval:449.50000 - 443.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waynesville
Stratigraphy comments: "U. Ord., (l. Richmondian)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows "carbonate"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: "burrowed claystones ->shale part of cycle (lower part, below Onniella comm. in packstone). muddy bottom, transitional between very shallow waters and the deeper waater...basins the north [sic]. below wavebase <30m deep. BA4. compares to Fox's crinoid-trilobite comm."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Frey, 1987; P = present"
Metadata
Database number:368
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2017-01-07 16:00:22
Access level:the public Released:1998-11-20 10:07:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61146. R. C. Frey. 1987. The paleoecology of a Late Ordovician shale unit from southwest Ohio and southeastern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 61:242-267 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]