Where: Fayette County, Kentucky (38.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Devils Hollow Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• 60 ft above base of Brannon Member (no section name given).
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•Orthograptus ruedemanni graptolite zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal conglomerate and lithified 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 99569: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 16.11.2010, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Sphenosphaera troosti de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail | |
"Tropidodiscus subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus
"Tropidodiscus subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Lophospira medialis" = Lophospira milleri
"Lophospira medialis" = Lophospira milleri Miller 1877 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthorhynchula linneyi James 1881 |