Where: Franklin County, Kentucky (38.2° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 63.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Curdsville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, hardground, intraclastic, shelly/skeletal, gray, cherty/siliceous grainstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M. E. Patzkowsky. 2004. Ecosystem structure and stability: middle Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA. Palaios 19(4):316-331 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48729: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 30.03.2005

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