Where: Breckinridge County, Kentucky (37.8° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 27.2° 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 both the Lower and 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; ooidal, shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous grainstone and shale
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 6964: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 18.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Blastoidea | |
Pentremites abruptus, Pentremites symmetricus, Pentremites girtyi, Pentremites platybasis, Pentremites elegans, Pentremites spicatus, Pentremites tulipaformis, Pentremites pyramidatus, Pentremites welleri
Pentremites abruptus blastoid
Pentremites symmetricus blastoid
Pentremites girtyi blastoid
Pentremites platybasis blastoid
Pentremites elegans blastoid
Pentremites spicatus blastoid
Pentremites tulipaformis blastoid
Pentremites pyramidatus blastoid
Pentremites welleri blastoid | |
Crinoidea | |
Pterotocrinus depressus Sea lily | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fistulipora perdensa, "Fistulipora confinis" = Fistulipora incrustans
"Fistulipora confinis" = Fistulipora incrustans Moore 1929 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Punctospirifer transversus McChesney 1860 | |
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Strophomenata | |
Schuchertella costatula Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855 |