03-OR-B (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 62.2° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 72727: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymenidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1840 trilobite
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
thin_ramose
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Crinoidea
 Inadunata - Merocrinidae
Merocrinus sp. Walcott 1884 Sea lily