02-PV-A: Maysvillian, 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
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
1 individual
encrusting
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
13 individuals
thin_ramose
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
3 individuals
ramose
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella rugosa (Meek 1873)
21 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella multisecta (James 1871)
10 individuals
recombined as Cincinnetina multisecta
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira modesta (Hall 1847)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
1 individual
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852
1 individual
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Washington
Coordinates: 37.6° North, 85.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° South, 62.1° 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Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data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:Maysvillian
Key time interval:Maysvillian
Age range of interval:450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clays Ferry
Local section:Pottsville 1
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:56 individuals
Rock censused:1600 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:72738
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-04 11:43:08 Last modified:2007-06-04 14:43:08
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-04 11:43:08
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]