02-HSL-4: Maysvillian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
1 individual
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832
2 individuals
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
3 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
7 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
3 individuals
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
6 individuals
ramose
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
1 individual
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Lincoln
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 84.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° South, 115.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Katian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 5
*Local age/stage:Maysvillian
Key time interval: Maysvillian
Age range of interval: 450.2 - 449.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calloway Creek
Local section:Hustonville South - Lower Local bed:4 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: C2 sequence
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,phosphatic,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:gray lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Collection size:29 individuals
Rock censused:450 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:72702
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-04 11:43:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-04 11:43:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
24429. S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]