Pentamerus Community at Seneca Park, Louisville, Kentucky (Silurian of the United States)

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

• "Environment appears to have been restricted, turbulent. Geographic and stratigraphic relations with other communities indicate BA 3."

•SEP environmental call based on given description and regional context

• For community in general: "Occurs chiefly as disarticulated well-sorted shells in coquinas. Matrix ranges from sandy mudstone-siltstone to frine- and medium-grained sandstone, together with their carbonate equivalents...Crossbeds and prominent ripple markes absent in tghe carbonate facies although present in siliciclastic environment."

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

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus sp. Sowerby 1813
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
? Meristina sp. Hall 1867