USGS 5023-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 (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• measured from the base of the Curdsville Limestone Member; Section No. 150

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 99339: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 08.11.2010, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus
"Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus" = Cyrtolites retrorsus Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Eunema centralis2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Lophospira milleri2 Miller 1877 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites obesa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
"Carinaropsis acuta" = Carinaropsis minima
"Carinaropsis acuta" = Carinaropsis minima Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sulcata3 Cooper 1956