Locality 26, Glen Dean Limestone, Grayson Co., KY (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Grayson County, Kentucky (37.5° N, 86.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dibunophyllum zone, Glen Dean Limestone Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• collections taken from the Upper Glen Dean Limestone [JA: entered as Chesterian; the Glen Dean is late Hombergian = Pendleian]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous grainstone and shale

• medium to dk. gray, semicrystalline to crystalline limestone and argillaceous limestone occuring in beds that are usually less than 5 ft. thick and averaging about 2 ft. in thickness; dk. gray, thin bedded shale and argillaceous sandstone, locally fossiliferous, separate stratigraphically adjacent limestone beds

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Horowitz. 1956. Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky. 1-449 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6946: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.04.2000

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer transversus
 Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria marcyi, Eumetria vera
Eumetria vera
Eumetria marcyi var. vera
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer increbescens
Spirifer increbescens Hall 1858
Spirifer increbescens var. A
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Archimedes invaginatus, Archimedes lativolvis, Archimedes meekanoides, Archimedes meekanus, Archimedes sublaxus
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Prismopora serrulata
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus acutus, Pterotocrinus spatulatus