Leperditia community, Tonoloway Ls., Pinto (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Maryland (39.6° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 42.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tonoloway Limestone Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• "Silurian (Pridoli)"

Environment/lithology: peritidal; calcareous lithology not reported

• "pelmicrite, stromatolitic, laminated calcilutite; gypsum molds. intertidal mudflat. BA1. Appalachian orogen"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. M. Warshauer and R. Smosna. 1977. Paleoecologic controls of the ostracode communities in the Tonoloway Limestone (Silurian; Pridoli) of the Central Appalachians. in H. Loffler and D. Danielopol, eds. Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda. W. Junk, The Hague 475-485 [M. Foote/M. Foote/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 488: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.12.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "S.M. Warshauer and R. Smosna, 1977. Paleoecol. controls of the ostracode communities in the Tonoloway Ls (Sil., Prid.) of the central Appalachians. In: H. Loffler [page ends]"
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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea sp.
Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema sp.
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp.
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
originally entered as "Hormatoma sp."
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp.
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella sp.
Hindella sp. Davidson 1882
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Dolichopteridae
Dolichopterus sp.
Dolichopterus sp. Hall 1859 eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Eurypteridae
Eurypterus sp.
Eurypterus sp. De Kay 1825 eurypterid
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod