USGS 5100-CO; Crisman Mill Rd., Little Hickman B section (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• basal part of Curdsville Ls. consists of "20-40 ft of cross-bedded [...] grainstone beds"

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
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus4
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus4 Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
Deiroceras curdsvillense Foerste and Teichert 1930
"A number of silicified shell fragments including USNM 468723 "
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania halli4 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
"Carinaropsis acuta" = Carinaropsis minima4
"Carinaropsis acuta" = Carinaropsis minima4 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites obesa4 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira milleri2 Miller 1877 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Clathrospira subconica3 Hall 1847 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae