Where: Kentucky (37.2° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 60.6° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Reba Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• C4 sequence. Given as Ashlock Formation, Reba member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite
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: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184638: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia laticosta James 1871 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena kentuckiana n. sp.
Leptaena kentuckiana n. sp. Pope 1982 |