Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (38.9° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 60.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bellevue Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• "Mayvillian (U. Ord.)" "basal Member": but Bellevue has no members!

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1987. The paleoecology of a Late Ordovician shale unit from southwest Ohio and southeastern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 61:242-267 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 375: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Pete Wagner

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