Corals of Brassfield Fm, mid-Llandovery, 53a - Patzkowsky (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Estill County, Kentucky (37.7° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 54.7° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brassfield Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite

• Dolomite.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. S. Laub. 1979. The corals of the Brassfield Formation (mid-Llandovery, Lower Silurian) in the Cincinnati Arch Region. Bulletins of American Paleontology 75(305):1-457 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug]more details

PaleoDB collection 13237: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 31.01.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals only.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Syringolitidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites favosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites spongiosus tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora eminula tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Calostylidae
 Stauriida - Ptychophyllidae
 Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae