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Color-banded gastropods from the Kendrick Shale Member (Middle Pennsylvanian, Westphalian B) of eastern Kentucky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Donald R. Chesnut Jr.  and
Ernie R. Slucher
Donald R. Chesnut Jr.
Affiliation:
Kentucky Geological Survey, 228 Mining and Mineral Resources Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506
Ernie R. Slucher
Affiliation:
Ohio Geological Survey, 4383 Fountain Square Drive, Columbus 43224
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Very well preserved gastropods, with preserved color banding, are common in a newly discovered site in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field. The fossils occur in calcareous silty shales of the Middle Pennsylvanian Kendrick Shale Member of the Breathitt Formation. Three genera of gastropods, Bellerophon, Straparollus, and Ianthanopsis, have been found with preserved color patterns.

Type
Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , May 1990 , pp. 475 - 477
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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