04-AA67-D (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Mason County, Kentucky (38.6° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bull Fork Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• C5 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 73112: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Costatulitidae
"Tentaculites richmondensis" = Costatulites richmondensis
"Tentaculites richmondensis" = Costatulites richmondensis Miller 1874
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma divaricans Nicholson 1875 horn coral