Belk Island: Maysvillian, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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Cameroceras rowenaense n. sp.
Frey 1995
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6 specimens | |||||||||
MU 266T (holotype), 267T A to 267T D (all are paratypes), "plus several other less complete, fragmentary specimens" | ||||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Valcouroceratidae
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Augustoceras shideleri n. sp.
Flower 1946
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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] |