Where: Bracken County, Kentucky (38.8° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 62.3° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 72955: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Calymenidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1840 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus Green 1832 trilobite | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella rugosa Meek 1873 | |
Crinoidea | |
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily |