USGS 5015-CO. Mitchellsburg Rd east side of Chaplin River, south of Perryville: Chatfieldian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus gigas (Dekay 1824)
Ross 1979
recombined as Asaphus gigas
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Gravicalymene hagani Ross 1967
Ross 1979
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Primaspis informal sp. y Richter and Richter 1917
Ross 1979
? Acidaspis informal sp. a Murchison 1839
Ross 1979
Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Proetidella informal sp. 2. Bancroft 1949
Ross 1967
    = Decoroproetus informal sp. 2 Pribyl 1946
Ross 1979
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Pionomena recens Neuman 1967
Pope 1982
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Furcitella cf. scofieldi (Winchell and Schuchert 1892)
Pope 1982
original and current combination Strophomena scofieldi
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema increbescens (Hall 1847)
Howe 1979
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia colbiensis Foerste 1910
Alberstadt 1979
Platystrophia elegantula McEwan 1919
Alberstadt 1979
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
? Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Howe 1979
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Palaeopteria aff. parvula Whiteaves 1897
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia cf. ulrichi
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Vanuxemia aff. sardesoni
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Cyrtodonta subovata Ulrich 1894
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Whiteavesia sp. Ulrich 1893
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Colpomya sp. Ulrich 1893
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Bivalvia - Lyrodesmatidae
Lyrodesma sp. Conrad 1841
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia cressmani Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
recombined as Pojetaconcha cressmani
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Carinaropsis cymbula (Hall 1861)
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania nashvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897
recombined as Loxobucania nashvillensis
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bucanopsis carinifera Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Sphenosphaera clausus (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
replaced by Sphenosphaera rogersensis
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira perangulata (Hall 1847)
Wagner 1990
Polyplacophora
Alastega martini Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Polyplacophora - Preacanthochitonidae
Listrochiton weiri Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Hoare and Pojeta 2006
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
original and current combination Cyrtolites retrorsus
Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Proplinidae
Vallatotheca unguiformis (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
Cyclocystoidea - Cyclocystoididae
Cyclocystoides sp. Salter and Billings 1858
Parsley 1981
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Boyle
Coordinates: 37.6° North, 84.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.4° South, 63.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
Key time interval:Chatfieldian Conodont zone:
Age range of interval:460.90000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lexington Limestone Member:Perryville Limestone
Local section:Perryville B Local bed:1.53 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Measured from the base of the Salvisa Bed; Section No. 30B
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,brown,gray lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "10 to 15 ft of interbedded light-gray to light-olive-gray micritic limestone and brownish-gray micritic limestone" "The light-gray calcilutite [of the Salvisa Bed] resembles much of the limestone in the Tyrone Limestone" (Cressman, 1973, p. 25)
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:99334
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:H. Street, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-08 08:03:57 Last modified:2018-09-07 10:30:18
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-08 08:03:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10963. G.P. Wahlman. 1992. Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(O):1-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/E. Ito]

Secondary references:

61873 L. P. Alberstadt. 1979. The brachiopod genus Platystrophia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(B):B1-B20 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
29528 R. D. Hoare and J., J.r. Pojeta. 2006. Ordovician Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from North America. 80(sp64):1-27 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]
53293 H. J. Howe. 1979. Middle and Late Ordovician plectambonitacean, rhynchonellacean, syntrophiacean, trimerellacean, and atrypacean brachiopods: descriptions and illustrations of 14 species of Ordovician brachiopods. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(C):C1-C17 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
21951 R. L. Parsley. 1981. Echinoderms from Middle and Upper Ordovician rocks of Kentucky. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066-K:1-9 [G. Webster/G. Webster]
10956 J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar. 1976. The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 968:1-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
53341 J. K. Pope. 1982. Some silicifled strophomenacean brachiopods from the Ordovician of Kentucky, with comments on the genus Pionomena. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(L):1-30 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
53590 R. J. Ross. 1979. Additional trilobites from the Ordovician of Kentucky. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(D):D1-D13 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
61880 R. J., J.r. Ross. 1967. Calymenid and Other Ordovician Trilobites from Kentucky and Ohio. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 583(B):1-19 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
26076 P. J. Wagner. 1990. Phylogenetic analysis of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda : Pleurotomariina) of the Ordovician and Silurian. Michigan State University 1-155 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]