Belk Island: Maysvillian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Cameroceras rowenaense n. sp. Frey 1995
6 specimens
MU 266T (holotype), 267T A to 267T D (all are paratypes), "plus several other less complete, fragmentary specimens"
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
Augustoceras shideleri n. sp. Flower 1946
4 specimens
UC 24290 (holotype), 24292 (paratype); MU 435T (paratype), 428T (topotype)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Russell
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 85.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.6° South, 62.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:middle Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
Key time interval:Maysvillian
Age range of interval:452.00000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Leipers Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Tetradium biostrome exposed along river bank."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "coralline biostromes [...comprising a...] diverse fauna of brachiopods, bryozoans, the coral Tetradium, gastropods, nautiloids, pelecypods, ostracodes, and trilobites."; "dense, dark-gray fossiliferous wackestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: " [...] The inferred environment of deposition was a shallow-marine, mixed carbonate and clastic bottom that becomes lower energy with time, the lithofacies becoming more fine-grained upsection. [...] normal marine environment"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: MU = Limper Museum of Geology at Miami University
UC = University of Cincinnati
Taxonomic list comments:see comments on lithology
Metadata
Also known as:collection KY-4; Shideler localities 3.51 B and 3.51 B2; Lake Cumberland; Rowena
Database number:87915
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-28 12:12:21 Last modified:2009-04-30 09:15:49
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-28 12:12:21
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]