Paleontological Survey of the Pennsylvanian Rocks of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field: Part 1, Invertebrates

Authors

Donald R. Chesnut Jr., University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

Morse (1931) conducted the last paleontological survey of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field almost 60 years ago. Substantial new information generated by mapping, as well as sedimentological, stratigraphic, and paleontological studies, now justify a new paleontological survey of these rocks. This survey is a compilation of both the new and old information.

Lithologic analysis reveals at least 41 marine zones in the coal field. Paleontological analysis shows that a variety of faunal communities existed, and many of the marine zones contain abundant and diverse faunal assembleges. However, the biostratigraphic resolution of invertebrate fossils is apparently very poor compared to the lithostratigraphic resolution of the coal-bearing beds.

Publication Date

1991

Series

Series XI

Report Number

Information Circular 36

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.ic36.11

Repository Citation

Chesnut, Donald R. Jr., "Paleontological Survey of the Pennsylvanian Rocks of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field: Part 1, Invertebrates" (1991). Information Circular--KGS. 46.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_ic/46