High Bridge, Tyrone Fm.: Rocklandian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Eopteria conocardiformis Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
USNM 209333; pl. 26 f. 16
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
? Lophospira notablis Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
recombined as Trochonemella notablis
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Cyrtospira bicurvata n. sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Subulites parvus n. sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma planulatoides n. sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Vaginoceras informal sp. A Hyatt 1884
1 element
MU 29868 (single silicified siphuncle)
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
Ormoceras ferecentricum n. sp. Foerste and Teichert 1930
1 specimen
USNM 82214 (type)
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras altopontense n. sp. Foerste and Teichert 1930
1 specimen
USNM 82196 (type)
Actinoceras kentuckiense n. sp. Foerste and Teichert 1930
1 specimen
USNM 82237 (type)
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Orthoceras tyronensis n. sp. Foerste 1912
1 specimen
recombined as Proteoceras tyronensis
USNM 87109 (type)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Jessamine
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 84.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.4° South, 63.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Rocklandian
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:High Bridge Formation:Tyrone Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Tyrone Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: nothing is said about the lithology of the Tyrone Ls. at this locality
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:87739
Authorizer:B. Kröger, P. Wagner Enterer:T. Liebrecht, P. Wagner
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-23 19:22:31 Last modified:2015-09-21 04:49:12
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-23 19:22:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24575. R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126 [S. Holland/S. Holland]

Secondary references:

10956 J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar. 1976. The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 968:1-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
11411 E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]