Ulrich & Scofield Mercer County Gastropod Locality (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Mercer County, Kentucky (37.7° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tyrone Formation (High Bridge Group), Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• “Upper Part of the Black River Group”

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 155399: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Conradella similis n. sp." = Phragmolites compressus, Bucania subangulata
"Conradella similis n. sp." = Phragmolites compressus Conrad 1838 snail
Bucania subangulata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira progne Billings 1860 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira obliqua Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonema subcrassum Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail