Salem Ls., Taylor and Green Cos., KY: Meramecian, Kentucky
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Taylor and Green |
| Coordinates: | 37.3° North, 85.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.8° South, 50.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 | *Epoch: | Meramecian |
| Key time interval: | Meramecian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 342.9 - 335.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Salem Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Mississippian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified "carbonate" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | lime mudstone | ||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:This list is a compilation of two tables of fauna collected from the entire Salem Limestone. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 2712 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | A. Webber |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-07-15 11:19:09 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 90. | R. S. Taylor. 1968. Paleontology and Lithology of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in South-Central Kentucky. The Compass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon 46(1):46-54 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement] |