Where: Franklin County, Kentucky (38.2° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 63.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Plectodina tenuis conodont zone, Grier Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)
• "Float 45 ft above Macedonia Bed."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 99802: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 23.11.2010, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Sphenosphaera burginensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Carinaropsis cymbula Hall 1861 snail | |
Bucania subangulata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail |