03-K445-J: Edenian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
Ectenocrinus sp. Miller 1889
1 individual
Crinoidea - Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
Cincinnaticrinus sp. Warn and Strimple 1977
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
1 individual
bifoliate
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884
4 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella rugosa (Meek 1873)
11 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella multisecta (James 1871)
2 individuals
recombined as Cincinnetina multisecta
Polychaeta - Phyllodocida - Lepidocoleidae
Lepidocoleus sp. Faber 1886
3 individuals
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
2 individuals
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Primaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917
2 individuals
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Cryptolithus tesselatus Green 1832
4 individuals
corrected as Cryptolithus tessellatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Campbell
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 84.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.3° South, 61.9° 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Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data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:Kope
Local section:K445
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: C1 sequence
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:hummocky CS,planar lamination,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:gray lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore ramp 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:31 individuals
Rock censused:150 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:72717
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-04 11:43:07 Last modified:2007-06-04 14:43:07
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-04 11:43:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]