Taylors Creek near Dent: Maysvillian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras duseri (Hall and Whitfield 1875)
1 specimen
MU 29766
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Hamilton
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 84.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° South, 60.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:middle Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
Key time interval:Maysvillian
Age range of interval:452.00000 - 449.50000 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
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,replaced with calcite
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-3, Taylor Creek
Database number:88023
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-30 10:51:49 Last modified:2009-04-30 09:23:56
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-30 10:51:49
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]