USGS 5016-CO. Mitchellsburg Road, south of Perryville (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Boyle County, Kentucky (37.6° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Perryville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• Measured from the base of the Salvisa Bed; Section No. 30B

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, nodular limestone

• "2 to 10 ft thick and consists of mostly nodular bedded calcisiltite and fine-grained calcarenite containing abundant brachiopods and some byozoans. The unit resembles the Grier Limestone Member and may be a tongue of that unit"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G.P. Wahlman. 1992. Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(O):1-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/E. Ito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99335: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 08.11.2010, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Pionomena recens4 Neuman 1967
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa mutabilis3 Ulrich 1893