3.5 miles south of High Bridge (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Jessamine County, Kentucky (37.8° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Curdsville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, sandy, cherty/siliceous grainstone and lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, sandy, cherty/siliceous packstone

• environmental call based on field notes of Holland and Patzkowsky

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica, replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. L. Parsley and L. W. Mintz. 1975. North American Paracrinoidea: (Ordovician: Paracrinozoa, new: Echinodermata). Bulletins of American Paleontology 68:1-115 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197153: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Paracrinoidea
 Comarocystitida - Comarocystitidae
Comarocystites tribrachius n. sp.
Comarocystites tribrachius n. sp. Parsley and Mintz 1975