Little Four Mile Creek (Saluda Tongue) (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Little Four-Mile Creek, N of Oxford

Where: Preble County, Ohio (39.6° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 58.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saluda Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• "Saluda tongue"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; dolomitic limestone

• "Hatfield (1968) described the Saluda Formation as being deposited under very shallow-water, possibly hypersaline, lagoonal conditions that developed behind an initially northward-advancing and then southward-retreating coral-sponge bank."
• Saluda Fm. general description: "sparsely fossiliferous dolomitic limestone and calcitic dolostone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: UC = University of Cincinnati

•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 88126: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 01.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras shideleri
Diestoceras shideleri Foerste 1924
MU 442T; UC 24508 (both are hypotypes)