Downtown WInchester (04SW6S) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (38.0° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 62.8° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lexington Limestone Formation, Mohawkian (457.3 - 451.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. M. Layou. 2009. Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States. Palaios 24:118-128 [K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85810: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 16.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp.
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Rhynchonellida - Orthorhynchulidae
Orthorhynchula sp.
Orthorhynchula sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C"
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp.
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847