Navispira Community from the Logansport Quarry, Indiana (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Indiana (40.8° N, 86.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 47.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kenneth Limestone Member (Wabash Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

• "Geographic and stratigraphic relations with associated communities make a BA 5 assignment reasonable, as does the generic composition of the community. [Reasons for low diversity unknown.]"

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•SEP environmental call based on given description and knowledge of regional geology

• "The occurrences are in beds a few cm thick, consisting of fine-grained sediment, typically with a very high percentage of articulated shells."

Reposited in the USNM

• Abundances stated in text.

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1999. Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 549-591 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24881: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Eoplicanoplia sp.
Eoplicanoplia sp. Boucot and Harper 1968
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp.
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867
genus name in quotes
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Delthyris sp., Howellella sp.
Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Navispira kennethensis
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp.
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis aff. arcuaria
Isorthis aff. arcuaria Hall and Clarke 1892
Orthotetacea
 Orthotetacea -
Orthotetacea indet.
Orthotetacea indet. Waagen 1884