Somerset Sh. Member, Salem Ls., IU16715, Taylor Co., KY (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Taylor County, Kentucky (37.3° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 32.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Somerset Shale Member (Salem Limestone Formation), Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• Lower Mississippian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified, gray, calcareous shale and packstone

Collection methods: Surface collections were made, but it is unknown if they were float or in situ.

Primary reference: H. R. Feldman. 1987. Facies Faunas of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky. Southeastern Geology 27(3):171-183 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2781: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 20.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Demospongiae
 Tetractinomorpha -
Belemnospongia parmula Rigby et al. 1979 demosponge
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Dimegelasmidae
Dimegelasma sp. Cooper 1942
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
? Girtyella sp. Weller 1911
originally entered as "Girtyella? sp."
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
"Batocrinus spergenensis" = Glannearycrinus spergenensis Miller 1892 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites conoideus Hall 1856 blastoid
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae