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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 72956: 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 | |
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus
"Cryptolithus tesselatus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus Green 1832 trilobite | |
Stenolaemata | |
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884 | |
Aspidopora sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
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Lophophorata | |
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulida indet. Waagen 1885 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella rugosa Meek 1873 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Crinoidea | |
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily | |
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily |