Where: Franklin County, Kentucky (38.2° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 63.2° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grier Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)
• Macedonia Bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, silty lime mudstone and lithified, gray, silty mudstone
Preservation: original calcite
Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M. E. Patzkowsky. 2004. Ecosystem structure and stability: middle Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA. Palaios 19(4):316-331 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48748: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 30.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
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Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania scabiosa Hall 1866 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 |