04-BLS-E: Richmondian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cuffeyella arachnoidea
1 individual
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Petrocrania scabiosa (Hall 1866)
2 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina alternata (Conrad 1838)
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella meeki (Miller 1875)
28 individuals
recombined as Cincinnetina meeki
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
1 individual
encrusting
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Caritodens demissa (Conrad 1842)
1 individual
recombined as Pterinea demissa
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste 1910)
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Franklin
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 85.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.0° South, 58.8° 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Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data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
Local section:Brookville Lake Spillway
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
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:35 individuals
Rock censused:200 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:72941
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-04 11:43:10 Last modified:2007-06-04 14:43:10
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-04 11:43:10
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]