04-WD-D (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Mason County, Kentucky (38.5° N, 83.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.5° S, 114.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Auburn Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• C3 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, 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 73103: 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 sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthoconic
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily