Where: Fleming County, Kentucky (38.4° N, 83.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 26.1° S, 112.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bull Fork Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• C5 sequence
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and lithified, gray mudstone
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: S. M. Holland and M.E. Patzkowsky. 2007. Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA. Palaios 22:408-423 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73051: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Flexicalymene meeki Foerste 1910 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea
"Caritodens sp." = Pterinea Goldfuss 1832 oyster | |
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Stenolaemata | |
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875 | |
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850
Platystrophia ponderosa Foerste 1909 | |
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847 | |
Crinoidea | |
Glyptocrinus sp. Hall 1847 Sea lily |