04-FLE-A1.4: Richmondian, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina alternata (Conrad 1838)
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884
33 individuals
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
61 individuals
massive
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
78 individuals
ramose
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora ramosa (Dorbigny 1850)
7 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Fleming
Coordinates: 38.4° North, 83.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° South, 58.2° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Local age/stage:Richmondian
Key time interval:Richmondian
Age range of interval:449.80000 - 446.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bull Fork
Local section:Flemingsburg A Local bed:1.4 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: C5 sequence
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dunes,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:sand shoal Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Collection size:180 individuals
Rock censused:3200 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:73048
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:S. Holland
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-04 11:43:11 Last modified:2007-06-04 14:43:11
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-04 11:43:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24429. 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]