Three Licks Branch section, sample 2: Llandovery, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Hadrognathus staurognathoides Walliser 1964
1 specimen
recombined as Distomodus staurognathoides
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
Neoprioniodus planus
3 specimens
synonym of Idioprioniodus
Diadelognathus excertus Nicoll and Rexroad 1969
1 specimen
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Plectospathodus irregularis
1 specimen
synonym of Ozarkodina
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
Spathognathodus polinclinatus Nicoll and Rexroad 1968
1 specimen
recombined as Wurmiella polinclinata
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus simplex
4 specimens
Panderodus recurvatus (Rhodes 1953)
1 specimen
synonym of Panderodus panderi
Panderodus unicostatus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
3 specimens
original and current combination Paltodus unicostatus
Subspecies "Panderodus unicostatus serratus (1)", "Panderodus unicostatus unicostatus (2)"
Panderodus gracilis (Branson and Mehl 1933)
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 83.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.6° South, 54.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Llandovery
Age range of interval:443.80000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Esill Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: dolomite
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:181798
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-10-04 06:13:58 Last modified:2016-10-04 06:13:58
Access level:authorizer only Released:2018-10-04 06:13:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60430. C. B. Rexroad and R. S. Nicoll. 1972. Conodonts from the Estill Shale (Silurian, Kentucky and Ohio) and their Bearing on Multielement Taxonomy. Geologlca et Palaeontologlca SB1:57-74 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]