Where: Jessamine County, Kentucky (37.9° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 63.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Curdsville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Kirkfieldian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• "Lower part of Curdsville Limestone Member, Lexington Limestone"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, acetic,
• " [...] specimens were obtained from bulk rock collections (36,000 pounds (lbs) of limestone) made by USGS field parties in the 1960's and 1970's." This statement not only applies to the Crisman Mill Road locality. For further details on collection methods see p. P22 in the primary reference
Primary reference: R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87823: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 25.03.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus4
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus4 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Deiroceras curdsvillense Foerste and Teichert 1930 "A number of silicified shell fragments including USNM 468723 "
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Gastropoda | |
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"Carinaropsis acuta" = Carinaropsis minima4
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Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchotrema increbescens1 Hall 1847 |