Racine Fm, Milwaukee, Hartung Quarry, 34547 - 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 13028: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 16.01.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Sthenarocalymene celebra" = Calymene celebra
"Sthenarocalymene celebra" = Calymene celebra Raymond 1916 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Antirhynchonella ventricosa
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
Reticulatrypa sp.
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella canalis
Resserella canalis Sowerby 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leangella dissiticostella
Crinoidea
 Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
Parapisocrinus sp.
Parapisocrinus sp. Mu 1954 Sea lily
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Astraeospongiidae
Astraeospongium sp.
Astraeospongium sp. Roemer 1860