03-MR-7.0K (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 21.7° S, 114.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairview Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C2 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72779: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis Foerste 1910
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily