Racine Fm, Milwaukee, Hartung Quarry, 34489 - Patzkowsky (Silurian to of the United States)
Where: Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (43.1° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.0° S, 49.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Racine Formation, Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite
• "...represent an inter-reef facies."
• fine-grained, well-bedded dolostone.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1991. Guild structure and tiering in a high-diversity Silurian community, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Palaios 6:465-478 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13017: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 16.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Strophomenata | |
"Protomegastrophia profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Protomegastrophia profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa Sowerby 1824 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dicoelosia biloba Linnaeus 1758 | |
Resserella canalis Sowerby 1839 | |
Plectatrypa imbricata Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Meristina sp. Hall 1867 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Trilobita | |
Encrinurus egani trilobite | |
"Sthenarocalymene celebra" = Calymene celebra
"Sthenarocalymene celebra" = Calymene celebra Raymond 1916 trilobite | |
Dalmanites illinoiensis trilobite
Dalmanites platycaudatus trilobite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea sp. 1 Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Parapisocrinus sp. Mu 1954 Sea lily |