03-ACS-4.0B (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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 (451.0 - 450.2 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 72644: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Iocrinus sp. Hall 1866 Sea lily
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites cancellatus Hall 1847 snail
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta
"Dalmanella multisecta" = Cincinnetina multisecta James 1871
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae