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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Edrioasteroidea | |
Edrioaster bigsbyi1 Billings 1858 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella curdsvillensis2 Foerste 1912 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella fertilis3 Ulrich 1909 | |
Tergomya | |
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Gastropoda | |
Sinuites obesa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Sphenosphaera troosti de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail |