Where: Kentucky (38.2° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 52.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Louisville Limestone Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• "lower part of Louisville Limestone, late Wenlockian"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal carbonate
•SEP environmental call based on given description and regional context
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 24885: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Pentamerus sp. Sowerby 1813 | |
? Anastrophia sp. Hall 1867 | |
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
? Meristina sp. Hall 1867 |