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The Ames Sea, situated in a shallow marine embayment in the Appalachian Basin, was the result of the most extensive marine transgression of the Pennsylvanian in this region. Gradient analysis of the proportional abundance of taxa reveals an environmental continuum across the Ames embayment along which four biofacies were distributed. Biofacies distribution is interpreted to be controlled by salinity,...