Echinoderms from Middle and Upper Ordovician rocks of Kentucky
Professional Paper
1066-K
By: R.L. Parsley
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Abstract
The Middle and Upper Ordovician limestones of Kentucky, especially the Lexington Limestone, have yielded a diverse silicified echinoderm fauna, including: Stylophora-Enoploura cf. E. punctata; Paracrinoidea-A mygdalocystites; Crinoidea, Inadunata-Hybocrir/us tumidus, Hybocystites problem,aticus, Carabocrinus sp., Cupulocrinus sp., Heterocrinus sp.; Cyclocystoidea-Cyclocystoides sp. A rhombiferan cystoid, A mecystis laevis, from the Edinburg Formation, Virginia, is also discussed. No new taxa are introduced.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Echinoderms from Middle and Upper Ordovician rocks of Kentucky |
| Series title | Professional Paper |
| Series number | 1066 |
| Chapter | K |
| DOI | 10.3133/pp1066K |
| Edition | - |
| Year Published | 1981 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Description | p. K1-K9; 1 plate |
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