Three Licks Branch section, sample 2 (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (38.2° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 54.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Esill Shale Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified shale and dolomite

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: C. B. Rexroad and R. S. Nicoll. 1972. Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy. Geologlca et Palaeontologlca SB1:57-74 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181798: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.10.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
 Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
"Hadrognathus staurognathoides" = Distomodus staurognathoides
"Hadrognathus staurognathoides" = Distomodus staurognathoides Walliser 1964
 Cyprinodontes - Prioniodinidae
Diadelognathus excertus, "Neoprioniodus planus" = Idioprioniodus
Diadelognathus excertus Nicoll and Rexroad 1969
"Neoprioniodus planus" = Idioprioniodus
 Cypriniformes -
"Plectospathodus irregularis" = Ozarkodina
"Plectospathodus irregularis" = Ozarkodina carp-like fish
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
"Spathognathodus polinclinatus" = Wurmiella polinclinata
"Spathognathodus polinclinatus" = Wurmiella polinclinata Nicoll and Rexroad 1968 carp-like fish
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933
"Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940