Camp Nelson 3 (04CNL4Sc) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (37.8° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tyrone Formation (High Bridge Group), Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal grainstone

• grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. M. Layou. 2009. Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States. Palaios 24:118-128 [K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86059: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp., "Whitella sp." = Cyrtodontula
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
"Whitella sp." = Cyrtodontula Tomlin 1931 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp.
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862