Where: Boyle County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus superbus conodont zone, Sulphur Well Member (Lexington Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Given as lower Flanagan Cherts, which are a mix of cherty beds. The lower ones in the Danville section belong to the Sulphur Well Member according to McLaughlin et al. 2004.

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•Sulphur Well spans M6A-M6B, but they put it below the boundary.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cherty/siliceous limestone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by Sardeson & Ulrich in 1890; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154461: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.02.2014

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