03-ACS-1.0A (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Campbell County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° S, 61.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kope Formation, Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• C1 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72638: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Polychaeta
  -
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Primaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Gravicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite