04-MAY-50.5 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Mason County, Kentucky (38.7° N, 83.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.3° S, 114.5° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 73076: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Acidaspis sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene meeki Foerste 1910 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
bifoliate
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia hopensis" = Vinlandostrophia hopensis Foerste 1910
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae