USGS 4883-CO: between Trinity and Antioch Churches; 1 mile southwest of north end of Kentucky Rte 595 on Kentucky River (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• shallow, well-aerated, moderately agitated water of normal salinity.
• thin and irregularly bedded to nodular-bedded, poorly sorted limestone and calcisiltite to calcarenite;

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 77149: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.12.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella frankfortensis3
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus2
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Oncoceras sp.1
Oncoceras sp.1 Hall 1847
USNM 468731
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Carinaropsis cymbula2
Carinaropsis cymbula2 Hall 1861 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bucanopsis carinifera2, Sphenosphaera burginensis2
Bucanopsis carinifera2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Sphenosphaera burginensis2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
1Frey 1995; 2Wahlman 1992; 3Walker 1982