Dry Fork Rd. 1 (04DF6Sa) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (37.9° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 62.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; grainstone

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 85811: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 16.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C", Trepostomida "sp. D"
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan
Trepostomida "sp. D" Ulrich 1882
thin ramose bryozoan
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp.
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Rhynchonellida - Orthorhynchulidae
Orthorhynchula sp.
Orthorhynchula sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "group D"
Crinoidea "group D" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge