Burgin (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (37.8° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Devils Hollow Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• M6

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white, cherty/siliceous grainstone and lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal, gray lime mudstone

• environmental call based on field notes of Holland and Patzkowsky

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194138: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea appressa
Holopea appressa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
"Protowarthia obesus" = Sinuites obesa
"Protowarthia obesus" = Sinuites obesa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Paupospira burginensis n. sp., Lophospira decursa, "Lophospira pulchella" = Lophospira perangulata
Paupospira burginensis n. sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Lophospira n. sp. medialis burginensis
Lophospira decursa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Lophospira pulchella" = Lophospira perangulata Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
"Trochonema (Eunema) arctatum n. sp." = Globonema arctatum, "Trochonema (Eunema) obsoletum n. sp." = Globonema niota
"Trochonema (Eunema) arctatum n. sp." = Globonema arctatum Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Trochonema (Eunema) obsoletum n. sp." = Globonema niota Hall 1861 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri
"Hormotoma salteri" = Cyrtostropha salteri Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira micula
Liospira micula Hall and Whitney 1862 snail
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites retrorsus
Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897