Where: Jessamine County, Kentucky (37.8° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 63.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Plectodina aculeata - Erismodus quadridactylus conodont zone, Camp Nelson Formation, Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)
• Camp Nelson overlies the Wells Creek Formation and underlies the Oregon formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. K. Pope. 1982. Some silicifled strophomenacean brachiopods from the Ordovician of Kentucky, with comments on the genus Pionomena. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(L):1-30 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184637: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Tetraphalerella sp. Wang 1949
Tetraphalerella cf. costellata Cooper 1956 | |
Oepikina minnesotensis Winchell 1881
Furcitella cf. scofieldi Winchell and Schuchert 1892 |