Where: Taylor County, Kentucky (37.3° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 32.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Somerset Shale Member (Salem Limestone Formation), Meramecian (345.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• Lower Mississippian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified, gray, calcareous shale and packstone

Collection methods: Surface collections were made, but it is unknown if they were float or in situ.

Primary reference: H. R. Feldman. 1987. Facies Faunas of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky. Southeastern Geology 27(3):171-183 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2781: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 20.07.1999