USGS 5022-CO. Clear Creek, KY (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Woodford County, Kentucky (38.0° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Curdsville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)

• "Float from lower 22 ft of Curdsville Limestone Member"

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 99336: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 08.11.2010, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Edrioasteroidea
 Edrioasterida - Edrioasteridae
Edrioaster bigsbyi1 Billings 1858
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Sphenosphaera troosti de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites obesa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella fertilis3 Ulrich 1909
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae