Where: Maryland (39.7° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 45.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Keefer Member (Mifflintown Formation), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• "Black shale interbedded in the Keefer Sst."
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; black shale
•SEP environmental call based on scanty given info. and knowledge of regional geology
Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14193: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 23.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Euchelicerata | |
Pterygotus marylandicus eurypterid |