Also known as collection KY-1

Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 62.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kope Formation, Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• "Clay shale bed 54 ft above the road level."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite, original chitin

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk,

• MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University

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 87844: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 26.03.2009

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