Where: Bracken County, Kentucky (38.8° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 62.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fulton Member (Kope Formation), Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)
• 55-57cm from base of outcrop
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, gray siltstone
Collection methods: bulk,
• Collected over thickness of bed
Primary reference: K.V. Bulinski. 2007. Analysis of sample-level properties along a paleoenvironmental gradient: the behavior of evenness as a function of sample size. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 243(3-4):490-508 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74872: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 03.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Merocrinus sp. Walcott 1884 Sea lily | |
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily | |
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889 Sea lily | |
Trilobita | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 |