Locality 35, Fraileys Shale, Caldwell Co., KY (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Caldwell County, Kentucky (37.1° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 28.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fraileys Shale Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• the Fraileys Shale of Kentucky and Illinois is equivalent to the middle Golconda of Indiana [JA: originally entered as "Middle Chester"; the Fraileys Shale is more specifically Pendleian]

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone

• no detailed description given; interbedded shales and limestones

Primary reference: J. Rodriguez. 1960. Invertebrate Fauna of the Golconda Formation (Middle Chester) of Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois. 1-259 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7064: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 21.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Kaskia chesterensis
Kaskia chesterensis Weller and Weller 1936 trilobite
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus lingulaformis