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 | |
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral | |
Hapsiphyllum cassedayi horn coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Belemnospongia parmula Rigby et al. 1979 demosponge | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dimegelasma sp. Cooper 1942 | |
Composita trinuclea Hall 1856
Cleiothyridina hirsuta Hall 1857 | |
Torynifer pseudolineatus Hall 1858 | |
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Perditocardinia dubia Hall 1856 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Crinoidea | |
"Batocrinus spergenensis" = Glannearycrinus spergenensis Miller 1892 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Batocrinus calyculus Sea lily | |
Dichocrinus simplex Sea lily | |
Platycrinites bonoensis Sea lily | |
Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus Sea lily | |
Blastoidea | |
Pentremites conoideus Hall 1856 blastoid | |
Echinoidea | |
Archaeocidaris norwoodi sea urchin |