00-FN-39.8: Chatfieldian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
13 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
5 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
7 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella frankfortensis (James 1871)
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877
2 individuals
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
8 individuals
ramose trepostome
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Franklin
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 84.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.0° South, 63.2° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
*Local age/stage:Chatfieldian
Key time interval:Chatfieldian
Age range of interval:453.70000 - 451.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lexington Limestone Member:Grier Limestone
Local section:Frankfort North Local bed:39.8 m
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Frankfort, KY
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Macedonia Bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified silty lime mudstone
Secondary lithology:gray lithified silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Collection size:37 individuals
Rock censused:4000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48746
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-03-30 10:55:41 Last modified:2005-03-30 13:55:41
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-30 10:55:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9838. S. M. Holland and M. E. Patzkowsky. 2004. Ecosystem structure and stability: middle Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA. Palaios 19(4):316-331 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Bruning]