River Quarries, Covington, Southgate Mbr. (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Now submerged by Ohio River Dam

Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.1° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 62.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Southgate Member (Kope Formation), Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

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 155415: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
"Protowarthia planodorsata n. sp." = Sinuites planodorsatus
"Protowarthia planodorsata n. sp." = Sinuites planodorsatus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira micula Hall and Whitney 1862 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira ampla" = Paupospira tropidophora, "Lophospira tenuistriata" = Paupospira tenuistriata
"Lophospira ampla" = Paupospira tropidophora Meek 1873 snail
"Lophospira tenuistriata" = Paupospira tenuistriata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae