Cincinnati, Fairmount Member (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Hamilton County, Ohio (39.1° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 60.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173054: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2015, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Rhytimya compressa Ulrich 1893 clam
Crinoidea
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Dystactocrinus constrictus Hall 1871 Sea lily
Ohiocrinus oehanus Ulrich 1925 Sea lily
Ohiocrinus laxus Hall 1871 Sea lily
 Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
Ectenocrinus simplex Hall 1847 Sea lily
 Disparida - Heterocrinidae
Heterocrinus pentagonus Ulrich 1882 Sea lily