D1627 CO. Valley View C (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as Antioch Church Road

Where: Kentucky (37.9° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Clays Ferry Formation, Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified, gray shale

• environmental call based on field notes of Holland and Patzkowsky

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1967. Calymenid and Other Ordovician Trilobites from Kentucky and Ohio. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 583(B):1-19 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192320: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Gravicalymene "sp. 4" Shirley 1936 trilobite
Flexicalymene griphus n. sp. Ross 1967 trilobite