Reidlin Road section, Forest Hills (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as collection KY-3; Mason Road; Kentucky Route 16

Where: Campbell County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° S, 60.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairview Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• "12 ft above Kope Formation-Fairview Formation contact."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone and shale

• " [...] transitional environments between the deep-water, transgressive conditions associated with the underlying Kope Formation and the very shallow water, locally shoaling conditions, inferred for basal portions of the overlying Grant Lake Limestone."
• " [...] even-bedded fossiliferous limestone and shale [...]"

Size class: macrofossils

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 87910: 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 duseri
Treptoceras duseri Hall and Whitfield 1875
USNM 468727