Saluda - type Cincinnatian (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Indiana (39.0° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 58.0° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Saluda Member (Whitewater Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Richmondian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal wackestone and packstone

• Geologic information from field notes of S.M. Holland
• widely and regionally variable. in places, consists of laminated dolomite. in other places, bioturbated thin to medium bedded dolomite. in other places, thin to medium bedded skeletal wackestones to packstones.

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Primary reference: E. Dalve. 1948. The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region. University Museum, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Cincinnati 1-56 [S. Holland/S. Holland/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5325: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 23.09.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Shideleroceratidae
Shideleroceras gracile
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
Probillingsites sp.
Probillingsites sp. Foerste 1928
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Beloitoceras amoenum, "Zitteloceras shidleri" = Zittelloceras, Miamoceras shideleri
"Zitteloceras shidleri" = Zittelloceras
 Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
Manitoulinoceras moderatum, Manitoulinoceras gyroforme, Kindleoceras equilaterale
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras ? reversum, Diestoceras shiderleri, ? Diestoceras vasiforme, Diestoceras indianense, Diestoceras eos
Diestoceras indianense Miller and Faber 1894
Diestoceras eos Hall and Whitfield 1875
 Cyrtocerinida - Cyrtocerinidae
Cyrtocerina carinifera
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Lambeoceras richmondense