USGS 5072-CO; Old Crow Distillery, Frankfort East B section
Franklin County, Kentucky38.14889, −84.84861
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Minerals on record here
1 mineralRecorded here: fossil.
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About USGS 5072-CO; Old Crow Distillery, Frankfort East B section
USGS 5072-CO; Old Crow Distillery, Frankfort East B section is a fossil collection site in Franklin, Kentucky, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Lexington Limestone, dated to the Shermanian (457.3–449.6 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as shallow subtidal indet and the tectonic setting is foreland basin. Documented finds include Vaginoceras, Sinuites obesa, Edrioaster, Cupulocrinus.
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Lexington Limestone
- Geologic interval
- Shermanian
- Age
- 457.3–449.6 Ma
- Depositional environment
- shallow subtidal indet.
- Tectonic setting
- foreland basin
- Recorded occurrences
- 4
Locality notes
Frankfort East 7.5' qdr; "Immediately behind Old Crow Distillery, northern bluff of Glenns Creek Road [McCracken Pike, KY 1659], 0.7 mi west of intersection with Hanley Lane."
Fossils found here
Vaginoceras
Cephalopoda · Endoceratidae
Sinuites obesa
Gastropoda · Sinuitidae
Edrioaster
Edrioasteroidea · Edrioasteridae
Cupulocrinus
Crinoidea · Cupulocrinidae
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 87819 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
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Questions about USGS 5072-CO; Old Crow Distillery, Frankfort East B section
Can you collect at USGS 5072-CO; Old Crow Distillery, Frankfort East B section?
It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.
What minerals are found at USGS 5072-CO; Old Crow Distillery, Frankfort East B section?
Fossil.
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Source: Paleobiology Database.