U.S. 125, W of Georgetown: Maysvillian, Ohio
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Treptoceras duseri
(Hall and Whitfield 1875)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MU 7871 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Ohio | County: | Brown |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 83.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.7° South, 60.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| Key time interval: | Maysvillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fairview | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "basal Fairview Formation" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal "limestone" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: " [...] even-bedded fossiliferous limestone and shale [...]" | |||
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: " [...] transitional environments between the deep-water, transgressive conditions associated with the underlying Kope Formation and the very shallow water, locally shoaling conditions, inferred for basal portions of the overlying Grant Lake Limestone." | |||
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | collection OH-2, White Oak Creek | ||
| Database number: | 88022 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-30 10:08:48 | Last modified: | 2009-04-30 09:23:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-30 10:08:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |