USGS 5078-CO. Exposures along road up from Kentucky River lock #7 to High Bridge (Ordovician of the United States)

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
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina minnesotensis Winchell 1881
Furcitella cf. scofieldi Winchell and Schuchert 1892