Waynesville Formation, western Cincinnati Arch, Kentucky (Ordovician of the United States)

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
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni
"Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni Safford 1869 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Byssonychia radiata Hall 1847 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Caritodens demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Zygospira kentuckyensis" = Zygospira kentuckiensis
"Zygospira kentuckyensis" = Zygospira kentuckiensis Hall and Clarke 1895
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae