Where: Jessamine County, Kentucky (37.8° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plectodina tenuis conodont zone, Grier Member (Lexington Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Local section no. 180

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original silica

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. R. Cressman. 1973. Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky. USGS Professional Paper 768:1-61 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77148: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.12.2007

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