02-SGH-14.9: Richmondian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tentaculita - Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
2 individuals
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Trematis millepuntata
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eochonetes clarksvillensis (Foerste 1912)
3 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella meeki (Miller 1875)
24 individuals
recombined as Cincinnetina meeki
Tentaculitida - Costatulitidae
Tentaculites richmondensis Miller 1874
3 individuals
recombined as Costatulites richmondensis
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838
1 individual
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
1 individual
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Deceptrix sp. Fuchs 1919
1 individual
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorphidae indet. Miller 1877
1 individual
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
12 individuals
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Franklin
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 85.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.4° South, 58.4° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Local age/stage:Richmondian
Key time interval:Richmondian
Age range of interval:449.80000 - 446.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waynesville Member:Fort Ancient
Local section:South Gate Hill Local bed:14.9 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: C5 sequence
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:hummocky CS,planar lamination,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:gray lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Collection size:50 individuals
Rock censused:1800 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:72482
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-04 11:43:05 Last modified:2007-06-04 14:43:05
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-04 11:43:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24429. S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]