Somerset Sh. Member, Salem Ls., IU16721 & IU13058, Green Co., KY (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Green County, Kentucky (37.2° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 32.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Somerset 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 2828: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 21.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Demospongiae
 Tetractinomorpha -
Belemnospongia parmula Rigby et al. 1979 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Haplistion armstrongi Young and Young 1877 demosponge
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Dimegelasmidae
Dimegelasma sp. Cooper 1942
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Spirifer pseudolineatus" = Torynifer pseudolineatus
"Spirifer pseudolineatus" = Torynifer pseudolineatus Hall 1858
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
? Girtyella sp. Weller 1911
originally entered as "Girtyella? sp."
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"indet. A" - originally entered as "Gastropoda indet. A"
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Euconospira conula Hall 1856 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras acutirostre" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre
"Platyceras acutirostre" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre Hall 1856 snail
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Griffithides bufo" = Hesslerides bufo
"Griffithides bufo" = Hesslerides bufo Meek and Worthen 1870 trilobite
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Camptocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus aff. asteriscus Sea lily
originally entered as "Barycrinus aff. asteriscus"
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites conoideus Hall 1856 blastoid