Sulphur Well Mbr., Lexington Limestone, Kentucky (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (38.0° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 63.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Sulphur Well Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal shale

• environmental call based on field notes of Holland and Patzkowsky

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. R. Cressman. 1973. Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky. USGS Professional Paper 768:1-61 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34557: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 09.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"ceramoporid" indet.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella frankfortensis
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Pachydictya sp.
Pachydictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Graptodictya sp., Escharopora sp.
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Escharopora sp. Hall 1847
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora cf. falesi, Peronopora sp., Peronopora milleri, Peronopora cf. milleri, Homotrypa sp.
Peronopora sp. Nicholson 1881
Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa sp., Eridotrypa cf. briareus
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora sp.
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
? Dekayia sp., ? Heterotrypa sp.
? Dekayia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
? Heterotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879