River Road (KY 445), Fort Thomas (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection KY-2

Where: Campbell County, Kentucky (39.1° N, 84.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 62.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Talus blocks at base of exposure."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; packstone and claystone

• "low-energy, mud-bottom environments [...] periodically reworked by storm events commonly resulting in sets of storm-formed 'tempestite' beds consisting of fining-up packets of packstone/grainstone-siltstone-shale [...]"
• " [...] thin packstone bed within the claystone and thin limestone [...]"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USNM

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 87901: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Treptoceras transversum
Treptoceras transversum Miller 1875
USNM 468692, 468693