ammonites
USGS 5023-CO. Clear Creek, KY (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Woodford County, Kentucky (38.0° N, 84.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plectodina tenuis conodont zone, Curdsville Limestone Member (Lexington Limestone Formation), Kirkfieldian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• measured from the base of the Curdsville Limestone Member; Section No. 150

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G.P. Wahlman. 1992. Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved molluscs (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(O):1-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99339: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 08.11.2010