Where: Franklin County, Kentucky (38.2° N, 84.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 17.4° S, 114.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Plectodina tenuis conodont zone, Logana Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• Section no. 86; "50 ft above top of Tyrone Limestone."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, sandy, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, sandy, cherty/siliceous packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original 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 101429: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 23.12.2010, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Rostricellula minuta Cooper 1956 | |
Tergomya | |
"Cyrtolites (Paracyrtolites) subplanus" = Paracyrtolites subplanus, "Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus
"Cyrtolites (Paracyrtolites) subplanus" = Paracyrtolites subplanus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Gastropoda | |
Carinaropsis cymbula Hall 1861 snail |