ammonites
03-WC-J (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Kenton County, Kentucky (39.0° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 61.8° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kope Formation, Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• C1 sequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, 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 72764: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 04.06.2007