Hitz Bed - type Cincinnatian: Ashgill, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Zitteloceras hitzi (Foerste 1910)
Oncoceras anomalum
Oncoceras duncanae
Oncoceras exile
Oncoceras insuetum
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
Fayettoceras thompsoni
Kindleoceras cumingsi
Kindleoceras rotundum
Manitoulinoceras moderatum
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras cyrtocerinoides
Diestoceras pupa
Diestoceras ? reversum
? Diestoceras vasiforme
Diestoceras indianense (Miller and Faber 1894)
Diestoceras eos (Hall and Whitfield 1875)
Cephalopoda - Cyrtocerinida - Cyrtocerinidae
Cyrtocerina madisonensis
Cyrtocerina modesta
Cyrtocerina patella
Cephalopoda - Apsidoceratidae
Charactoceras baeri (Meek and Worthen 1865)
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Armenoceratidae
Armenoceras madisonense
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras hitzi
Gorbyoceras crossi
Gorbyoceras gorbyi (Miller 1894)
Gorbyoceras hammelli (Foerste 1910)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 84.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° South, 58.0° West
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Epoch:Late/Upper Ashgill
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Richmondian
Key time interval:Ashgill
Age range of interval:449.60000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Whitewater Member:Hitz
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Richmondian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: medium to thick-bedded fossiliferous wackestone to packstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Geological information from field notes of S.M.Holland
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:5323
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-23 10:29:05 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:45
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-23 10:29:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
316. 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]