Where: Kentucky (38.0° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 59.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Waynesville Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Richmondian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified mudstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: R. G. Browne. 1964. The coral horizons and stratigraphy of the upper Richmond Group in Kentucky west of the Cincinnati Arch. Journal of Paleontology 38(2):385-392 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37832: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 25.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tetradium | |
Tetradium approximatum Ulrich 1900 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni
"Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni Safford 1869 snail | |
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Byssonychia radiata Hall 1847 clam | |
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Zygospira kentuckyensis" = Zygospira kentuckiensis
"Zygospira kentuckyensis" = Zygospira kentuckiensis Hall and Clarke 1895 | |
Platystrophia cypha James 1874
Platystrophia clarksvillensis Foerste 1910 | |
Hebertella sinuata Hall 1847 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Anthozoa | |
Favistella alveolata horn coral |