Where: Washington County, Kentucky (37.7° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 61.7° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grant Lake Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• C2 sequence
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, 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 72748: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia ponderosa Foerste 1909 | |
Hebertella occidentalis Hall 1847 | |
Zygospira modesta Hall 1847 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Bivalvia | |
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam |