Where: Boyle County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Perryville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)
• "Basal 3-4 ft of Perryville Limestone Member, immediately above Tanglewood Limestone Member, Lexington Limestone."
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, brown, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 100233: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 02.12.2010, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
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Polyplacophora | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bucanopsis carinifera, "Bellerophon (Bellerophon) bilineatus" = Sphenosphaera bilineatus
Bucanopsis carinifera Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Bellerophon (Bellerophon) bilineatus" = Sphenosphaera bilineatus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Tropidodiscus subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus
"Tropidodiscus subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Bucania sublata, "Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis
Bucania sublata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail |