Where: Boyle County, Kentucky (37.7° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Perryville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)
• Section no. 30A; "Basal 2 ft of Salvisa Bed; northwestern wall of quarry."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, brown, gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
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 100288: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 07.12.2010, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Hebertella frankfortensis4 James 1871 | |
Polyplacophora | |
Alastega martini n. sp.1
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Listrochiton weiri n. gen. n. sp.1
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Tergomya | |
Vallatotheca unguiformis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Gastropoda | |
Bucanopsis carinifera, "Sphenosphaera clausus" = Sphenosphaera rogersensis
Bucanopsis carinifera Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Sphenosphaera clausus" = Sphenosphaera rogersensis Foerste 1914 snail | |
"Tropidodiscus subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus
"Tropidodiscus subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis
"Bucania nashvillensis" = Loxobucania nashvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri3
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