Fossil fauna of Kentucky by stratigraphic unit

by Don Chesnut (chesnut<at>uky.edu)
©DRC 2014

Pleistocene

Pliocene

Miocene

Oligocene

Eocene

Paleocene

Cretaceous

[Jurassic strata not in Kentucky]

[Triassic strata not in Kentucky]

[Permian strata do not occur at the surface in Kentucky.]

Pennsylvanian

Mississippian

Sloans Valley Member of the Paragon Formation
Somerset Shale Member of the Salem Limestone
Nada Member of the Borden Formation

Devonian

Silurian

Ordovocian

[Cambrian strata do not occur at the surface in Kentucky.]

[Precambrian strata do not occur at the surface in Kentucky.]