Vineyard 3 (04FT5Sc) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (37.8° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal packstone and grainstone

• packstone-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 86051: authorized by Karen Layou, entered by Karen Layou on 25.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida "sp. D" Ulrich 1882
thin ramose bryozoan
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "group C" Miller 1821 Sea lily