Also known as Bed #12
Where: Taylor County, Kentucky (37.5° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° S, 32.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Salem Limestone Formation, Meramecian (345.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• Upper Mississippian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, ooidal packstone
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: R. S. Taylor. 1968. Paleontology and Lithology of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in South-Central Kentucky. The Compass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon 46(1):46-54 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2711: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 15.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Ostracoda | |
Kirkbya sp. Jones 1859 ostracod | |
Amphissites centronotoides, Amphissites mimicus, Amphissites planoventralis, Amphissites vanniae, Glyptopleura parvacostata, Glyptopleura perbella
Amphissites centronotoides ostracod
Amphissites mimicus ostracod
Amphissites planoventralis ostracod
Amphissites vanniae ostracod
Glyptopleura parvacostata ostracod
Glyptopleura perbella ostracod | |
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Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Cavellina sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod | |
Paraparchites subcircularis ostracod | |
Oliganisus sp. ostracod | |
Bythocypris sp. Brady 1880 ostracod
Bythocypris lydeae ostracod | |
Acratia sp. Delo 1930 ostracod | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia salemensis ostracod | |
Strophomenata | |
Marginicinctus sp. Sutton 1938 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Gastropoda | |
Straparollus spergenensis Hall 1856 snail | |
Anematina proutana Hall 1856 snail | |
Bulimorpha elongata Hall 1858 snail
Bulimorpha bulimiformis Hall 1858 snail | |
Rhineoderma wortheni Hall 1856 snail | |
Echinoidea | |
Archaeocidaris norwoodi sea urchin |