New Providence Sh. Member, Coral Ridge, KY quarry: Chadian, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Prolecanitida
- Prolecanitidae
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? Cantabricanites greenei
(Miller 1892)
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65 specimens | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Pericyclidae
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Polaricyclus ballardensis
(Gordon 1964)
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19 specimens | |||||||||
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Polaricyclus conkini n. sp.
Work and Mason 2004
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34 specimens | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Girtyoceratidae
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Winchelloceras knappi n. sp.
Work and Mason 2004
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62 specimens | |||||||||
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Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
- Idiognathodontidae
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Gnathodus texanus
Roundy 1926
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky |
| Coordinates: | 38.1° North, 85.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.9° South, 32.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Chadian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 346.70000 - 340.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Borden | Member: | New Providence Shale |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green lithified "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | offshore | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,replaced with pyrite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SUI |
Metadata
| Database number: | 54182 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Peters | Enterer: | S. Peters |
| Modifier: | S. Peters | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-26 12:37:26 | Last modified: | 2005-09-26 15:37:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-26 12:37:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14654. | D. M. Work and C. E. Mason. 2004. Mississippian (Late Osagean) ammonoids from the New Providence SHale Member of the Borden Formation, North-Central Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1128-1137 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters] |