Kentucky Highway 17 in Fort Wright: Katian, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta
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Sphenothallus sp.
Hall 1847
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Trematidae
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Schizocrania sp.
Hall and Whitfield 1875
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Zygospira modesta
(Hall 1847)
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Tentaculita
- Cornulitida
- Cornulitidae
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Cornulites sp.
Schlotheim 1820
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Ambonychiidae
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Ambonychia sp.
Hall 1847
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Orthodesma sp.
Hall and Whitfield 1875
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Crinoidea
- Plicodendrocrinidae
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Plicodendrocrinus casei
(Meek 1871)
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Crinoidea
- Homocrinida
- Homocrinidae
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Ectenocrinus simplex
(Hall 1847)
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original and current combination Heterocrinus simplex | ||||||||||
Crinoidea
- Homocrinida
- Cincinnaticrinidae
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Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialis
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Glyptocrinidae
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Glyptocrinus nodosus
Kallmeyer and Ausich 2015
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n. sp.; holotype CMCIP 71396 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky |
Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 84.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 26.1° South, 59.3° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | middle Late Ordovician | ||
Key time interval: | Katian | ||
Age range of interval: | 453.00000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kope | Member: | Southgate | ||
Local section: | Pioneer Valley | Local bed: | 9-10 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Shale bed in Pioneer Valley submember that was 1.0 m below bed 10 and 0.5 m above a 10 cm thick weathered siltstone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | calcareous "shale" |
Secondary lithology: | argillaceous packstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The excavated shale bed was 15 to 20 cm thick and rested on a 20-mm thick argillaceous packstone layer. | |
Environment: | deep subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),mechanical,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | CM |
Metadata
Also known as: | New Glyptocrinus and Plicodendrocrinus | ||
Database number: | 181722 | ||
Authorizer: | V. Syverson | Enterer: | V. Syverson |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2016-09-29 16:23:39 | Last modified: | 2020-06-25 19:57:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-09-29 16:23:39 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
60419. | J. W. Kallmeyer and W. I. Ausich. 2015. Deepwater occurrence of a new Glyptocrinus (Crinoidea, Camerata) from the Late Ordovician of southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky: revision of crinoid paleocommunity composition. Journal of Paleontology 89(6):1068-1075 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson] |