Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 60.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fairview Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• C2 sequence
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal 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 72770: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
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Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
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Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
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Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Escharopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Ptychocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885 Sea lily | |
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Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily | |