Where: Kentucky (38.2° N, 84.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 17.4° S, 114.5° W (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Brannon Member (Lexington Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• This publication was made prior to modern stratigraphic nomenclature; it is now known that Beecher's Brachiospongia beds were from the Brannon

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified mudstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, cherty/siliceous packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, original silica

Primary reference: C. E. Beecher. 1889. Brachiospongidae: a memoir on a group of Silurian sponges. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 2:1-28 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37834: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 25.03.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

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