ammonites
03-WBM-3.0A (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Greene County, Ohio (39.8° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.1° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Whitewater Formation), Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• C5 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, 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 72630: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007