Clays Ferry - Kentucky: Cressman's member listing: Chatfieldian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Loxoplocus sp. Fischer 1885
Loxoplocus (Lophospira)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus sp. Meek and Worthen 1866
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
? Sinuites sp. Koken 1896
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Palaeoconcha sp. Miller 1889
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia cf. radiata Ulrich 1894
recombined as Byssonychia radiata
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
Orthonybyoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites sp. Conrad 1838
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Sowerbyella cf. rugosa (Meek 1873)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rafinesquina winchesterensis
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
Eridorthis sp. Foerste 1909
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia sp. King 1850
Platystrophia elegantula McEwan 1919
Platystrophia cf. amoena McEwan 1919
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Dalmanella multisecta (James 1871)
recombined as Cincinnetina multisecta
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Heterorthidae
Dalmanella emacerata (Hall 1860)
recombined as Heterorthina emacerata
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira recurvirostris (Hall 1847)
recombined as Anazyga recurvirostra
Zygospira cf. cincinnatiensis
Zygospira cf. modesta (Hall 1847)
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria cf. teres
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
? Ceramophylla sp.
? Ceramoporella sp. Ulrich 1882
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Arthropora sp. Ulrich 1882
synonym of Graptodictya
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Amplexopora persimilis
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Peronopora sp. Nicholson 1881
Peronopora cf. decipiens
Peronopora milleri
Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
Eridotrypa cf. briareus
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
Batostomella sp. Bassler 1911
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911
Hallopora onealli
Hallopora cf. onealli
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Atactopora sp.
? Heterotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
Heterotrypa cf. frondosa (Dorbigny 1850)
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Dittoporidae
Hemiphragma sp. Ulrich 1893
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
? Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832
Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Proetidella sp. Bancroft 1949
synonym of Decoroproetus
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
? Ceraurus sp. Green 1832
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
? Gravicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Acidaspis sp. Murchison 1839
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Ceratopsis intermedia
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
Milleratia aff. shideleri
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Leperditella sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 84.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° South, 63.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Chatfieldian
Age range of interval:453.70000 - 451.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clays Ferry
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:gray lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: environmental call based on field notes of Holland and Patzkowsky
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:34563
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-09-09 10:13:01 Last modified:2003-09-09 13:13:01
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-09 10:13:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3965. E. R. Cressman. 1973. Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky. USGS Professional Paper 768:1-61 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]