Moorefield, Locality 3, Read 1939: Famennian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Sporangites huronensis
Ginkgoopsida - Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Kalymma lirata
Kalymma grandis Unger 1856
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 83.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° South, 33.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Famennian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 5
*Period:Late/Upper Devonian *Epoch:Famennian
Key time interval:Famennian
Age range of interval:372.20000 - 358.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:New Albany Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:21028
Authorizer:W. Stein Enterer:J. Kao
Modifier:J. Kao Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-14 13:02:29 Last modified:2002-06-14 16:02:29
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-14 13:02:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6427. C. B. Read and G. Campbell. 1939. Preliminary Account of the New Albany Shale Flora. The American Midland Naturalist 21(2):435-453 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]