Hardin Springs, Kentucky: Chesterian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Blastoidea - Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites godoni (Defrance 1819)
24 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Hardin
Coordinates: 37.6° North, 86.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.0° South, 29.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2-3
Key time interval: Chesterian
Age range of interval: 335.8 - 323.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Elwren
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Chesterian
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: No geology info given
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Blastoids only
Metadata
Database number:21
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2006-08-06 23:48:52
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5. H. H. Beaver and A. J. Fabian. 1998. Color patterns in Mississippian (Chesterian) blastoids. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):332-338 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]