00-PKM-36.8: Edenian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Gravicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
2 individuals
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
1 individual
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
14 individuals
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
2 individuals
bifoliate trepostome
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
4 individuals
ramose trepostome
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Geniculograptus sp. Mitchell 1987
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Franklin
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 84.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.0° South, 63.1° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Local age/stage:Edenian
Key time interval:Edenian
Age range of interval:451.10000 - 450.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clays Ferry
Local section:Peaks Mill Local bed:36.8 m
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Frankfort, KY
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:intraclastic,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified grainstone
Secondary lithology:gray lithified 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:26 individuals
Rock censused:1500 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48781
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]