Where: Pulaski County, Kentucky (36.9° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° S, 26.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• 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
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• collected by Dr. C. A. Malott in 1940
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 6968: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 18.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Cleiothyridina sublamellosa Hall 1858
Composita subquadrata Hall 1858 | |
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Strophomenata | |
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Crinoidea | |
Onychocrinus pulaskiensis Sea lily | |
Eupachycrinus spartarius Sea lily
Eupachycrinus germanus Sea lily | |
Pterotocrinus depressus Sea lily
Pterotocrinus bifurcatus Sea lily
Pterotocrinus spatulatus Sea lily |