USGS D-1196-CO. Eastbound lanes of I-64, east of bridge over Kentucky River: Shermanian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) retrorsus (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
original and current combination Cyrtolites retrorsus
Cyrtolites (Paracyrtolites) subplanus (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
recombined as Paracyrtolites subplanus
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Carinaropsis cymbula (Hall 1861)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula minuta Cooper 1956
Howe 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Franklin
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 84.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.1° South, 63.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Shermanian Conodont zone: Plectodina tenuis
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lexington Limestone Member:Logana
Local section:Frankfort East A Local bed:50 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Section no. 86; "50 ft above top of Tyrone Limestone."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",phosphatic,shelly/skeletal lithified sandy,cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Secondary lithology:phosphatic,shelly/skeletal lithified sandy,cherty/siliceous packstone
Lithology description: bioclastic calcarenite and calcirudite, which is sandy and chert bearing in part, and subordinate calcisiltite and irregularly bedded to nodular fossiliferous limestone.
Environment:deep subtidal ramp Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:101429
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:H. Street, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-12-23 02:40:43 Last modified:2010-12-22 15:41:36
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-23 02:40:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10963. 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]

Secondary references:

53293 H. J. Howe. 1979. Middle and Late Ordovician plectambonitacean, rhynchonellacean, syntrophiacean, trimerellacean, and atrypacean brachiopods: descriptions and illustrations of 14 species of Ordovician brachiopods. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(C):C1-C17 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]