New Providence Sh. Member, Coral Ridge, KY quarry (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (38.1° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 32.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: New Providence Shale Member (Borden Formation), Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with pyrite

Reposited in the SUI

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: D. M. Work and C. E. Mason. 2004. Mississippian (Late Osagean) ammonoids from the New Providence SHale Member of the Borden Formation, North-Central Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1128-1137 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54182: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 26.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Winchelloceras knappi n. sp. Work and Mason 2004 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Pericyclidae
Polaricyclus conkini n. sp. Work and Mason 2004 ammonite
Polaricyclus ballardensis Gordon 1964 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
? Cantabricanites greenei Miller 1892 ammonite
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Gnathodus texanus Roundy 1926 conodont