Also known as Kendrick Shale Type Locality

Where: Floyd County County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 82.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 22.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kendrick Shale Member (Breathitt Formation), Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• The Kendrick shale lies about one hundred and seventy feet above the well known Prestonburg, Miller's Creek, or Van Lear coal...

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•...this is shown by the presence of the Brachiopod Spirifer rockymontanus

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•.....should be placed in the lower part of the Wise formation or Upper Pottsville, with the Norton formation just below it correlating with the earliest Pottsville sediments

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•This is now the Breathitt formation (PJW 2016-11-29). Uppermost Morrowan.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

• Brachiopods...are rare here....

•... practically all the common guides are absent. Mollusca are revealed as the common fossils...... many specimens of Cephalopods, especially the Goniatites. ... so far no trace of Trilobites, which are rare in the Pennsylvanian System, or of Fusulina which are usually present, of not prolific in this systen, has been found.

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•...the Kendrick fossil shale horizon ... presents the true Pennsylvanian characteristic of a cosmopolitan, long range fauna.

Primary reference: W. R. Jillson. 1919. The Kendrick Shale - A New Calcareous Fossil Horizon in the Coal Measures of Eastern Kentucky. Kentucky Department of Geology & Forestry, series V (of the Kentucky Geological Survey), Mineral & Forest Resources of Kentucky 1(2):95-104 [W. Kiessling/S. Triple]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 158165: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Super Triple on 16.07.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham and Phil Novack-Gottshall

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