Where: Fleming County, Kentucky (38.5° N, 83.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 58.1° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sunset Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• C4 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 72854: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea Goldfuss 1832 oyster | |
Crinoidea | |
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily |