Also known as (Ky. Rt. 9) at the exit for Brooksville, Kentucky
Where: Bracken County, Kentucky (38.7° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 62.3° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Climacograptus spiniferus graptolite zone, Fulton Member (Kope Formation), Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)
• a thin 1–3-cm thick packstone bed 55–65 cm above the Point Pleasant–Kope formational contact (C. E. Brett, personal commun., 1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. D. Sumrall and G. A. Schumacher. 2002. Cheirocystis fultonensis, a new glyptocystitoid rhombiferan from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch - comments on cheirorinid ontogeny. Journal of Paleontology 76(5):843-851 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154339: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
Trilobita | |
"Acidaspsis sp." = Acidaspis
"Acidaspsis sp." = Acidaspis Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene granulosa Foerste 1909 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Cheirocystis fultonensis n. sp.
Cheirocystis fultonensis n. sp. Sumrall and Schumacher 2002 | |
Crinoidea | |
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily | |
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily | |
Merocrinus sp. Walcott 1884 Sea lily |