Bon Well Hill, Waynesville Fm., Franklin Co.: Richmondian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
12 specimens
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras sp. Flower 1942
1 specimen
    = Treptoceras duseri Hall and Whitfield 1875
Frey 1987
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896
4 specimens
    = Sinuites subcompressa Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Frey 1987
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Caritodens sp.
2 specimens
    = Caritodens demissa Conrad 1842
Frey 1987
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
20 specimens
    = Ambonychia suberecta
Frey 1987
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Corallidomus sp. Whitfield 1895
26 specimens
    = Corallidomus versaillesensis
Frey 1987
Pholadomorpha sp. Foerste 1914
12 specimens
    = Pholadomorpha pholadiformis Hall 1851
Frey 1987
Psiloconcha sp. Ulrich 1894
12 specimens
    = Psiloconcha suberecta
Frey 1987
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulops sp. Hall 1871
14 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Trematis sp. Sharpe 1848
2 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
2 specimens
Tentaculitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
- specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Franklin
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 85.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.3° South, 58.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Katian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 5
*Local age/stage:Richmondian
Key time interval: Richmondian
Age range of interval: 449.8 - 446 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waynesville
Stratigraphy comments: "early Richmondian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: "shelly claystone bed (1 exposure) BA4. offshore"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Frey, 1987b"
Metadata
Database number:371
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2017-01-07 16:03:28
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]

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]