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