Frankfort North 5 (04FN5Dd) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (38.2° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 63.2° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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: deep subtidal ramp; shelly/skeletal packstone

• wavy to nodular bedded 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 85970: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 23.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
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Bryozoa "indet. B" bryozoan
encrusting bryozoan
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. C" Ulrich 1882
thick ramose bryozoan
Trepostomida "sp. D" Ulrich 1882
thin ramose bryozoan
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorphidae indet. Miller 1877 clam
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "group A" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Crinoidea "group C" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Crinoidea "group F" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Crinoidea "group G" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Crinoidea "group H" Miller 1821 Sea lily