Locality 28, Glen Dean Limestone, Pulaski Co., KY (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• 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,

• 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

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer increbescens Hall 1858
S. increbescens var. A
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Crinoidea
 Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
 Cladida - Eupachycrinidae
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
P. sp. B