04-HCR-E (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Bracken County, Kentucky (38.8° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 62.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kope Formation, Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• C1 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72958: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus Green 1832 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite