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)
• "16 ft above Perryville Limestone Member-Tanglewood Limestone Member contact."
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, nodular 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 100234: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 02.12.2010, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia colbiensis1 Foerste 1910 | |
Hebertella occidentalis3 Hall 1847
Hebertella frankfortensis3 James 1871 | |
Polyplacophora | |
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