Where: Mason 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 72862: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884 | |
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Trilobita | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite |