00-PKM-16.0 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Kentucky (38.3° N, 84.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 17.3° S, 114.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, phosphatic, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

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 48767: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 30.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose trepostome
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail