Orphanage Road, Fort Mitchell: Edenian, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Diplograptidae
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Geniculograptus typicalis
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Zygospira sp.
Hall 1862
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Onniella sp.
Bancroft 1928
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Tergomya
- Cyrtonellida
- Cyrtolitidae
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Cyrtolites sp.
Conrad 1838
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Bivalvia
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Pelecypoda indet.
Goldfuss 1820
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| synonym of Bivalvia | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Tarphycerida
- Trocholitidae
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Trocholites faberi
Foerste 1929
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| USNM 468724, 468725, 468726 | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Treptoceras transversum
(Miller 1875)
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| no quantities and catalogue number(s) given | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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? Triendoceras davisi n. sp.
Frey 1995
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| MU 410T (holotype), 412T (paratype) | ||||||||||
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Rostroconchia
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Rostroconchia indet.
Pojeta et al. 1972
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Gastropoda
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Pleurotomariacea indet.
Swainson 1840
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| corrected as Pleurotomarioidea | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Sinuitidae
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Sinuites sp.
Koken 1896
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| listed as monoplacophoran in the reference | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Kenton |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 84.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.6° South, 62.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| Key time interval: | Edenian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 451.10000 - 450.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kope | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Clay shale bed 54 ft above the road level." | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "meter-thick claystone bed." | |||
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: "low-energy, mud-bottom environments [...] periodically reworked by storm events commonly resulting in sets of storm-formed 'tempestite' beds consisting of fining-up packets of packstone/grainstone-siltstone-shale [...]" | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,original calcite,original chitin |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | collection KY-1 | ||
| Database number: | 87844 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-26 11:14:31 | Last modified: | 2009-04-30 09:15:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-26 11:14:31 |
| 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] |