Kentucky Highway 17 in Fort Wright: Katian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta
Sphenothallus sp. Hall 1847
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Schizocrania sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
Tentaculita - Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Crinoidea - Plicodendrocrinidae
Plicodendrocrinus casei (Meek 1871)
Crinoidea - Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
Ectenocrinus simplex (Hall 1847)
original and current combination Heterocrinus simplex
Crinoidea - Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialis
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
Glyptocrinus nodosus Kallmeyer and Ausich 2015
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]