Where: Kentucky (38.0° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 59.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Whitewater Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Richmondian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous packstone and lithified, calcareous mudstone

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 37833: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 25.03.2004

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