Camden (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Preble County, Ohio (39.6° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus divergens conodont zone, Whitewater Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• "rubbly facies in the Whitewater Formation". Overlies Preachersville member of Drakes Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; rubbly, shelly/skeletal limestone

• " [...] normal marine shallow water conditions [...] "
• " [...] irregularly bedded, very fossiliferous limestones [...] "

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University

Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88125: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 01.04.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Salpingostoma richmondensis
Salpingostoma richmondensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras shideleri
Diestoceras shideleri Foerste 1924
MU 14078