Road-cut along Kentucky Route 1159 just south of the Alexandria to Ashland Hwy (Ordovician of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
"Acidaspsis sp." = Acidaspis
"Acidaspsis sp." = Acidaspis Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene granulosa Foerste 1909 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae
Cheirocystis fultonensis n. sp. Sumrall and Schumacher 2002
Crinoidea
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily
 Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily
 Inadunata - Merocrinidae
Merocrinus sp. Walcott 1884 Sea lily