Swatara Gap (Tuscarora) eurypterids: Llandovery, Pennsylvania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Eurypterida
- Hardieopteridae
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Hardieopterus myops
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Eurypterida
- Rhenopteridae
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Kiaeropterus otisius
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Eurypterida
- Hughmilleriidae
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Hughmilleria shawangunk
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Eurypterida
- Pterygotidae
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Erettopterus globiceps
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Eurypterida
- Adelophthalmidae
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Parahughmilleria maria
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unclassified
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Arthrophycus sp.
Hall 1852
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates: | 40.7° North, 76.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.2° South, 47.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Llandovery |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 1 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Silurian - Middle Silurian | *Epoch: | Llandoverian |
| Key time interval: | Llandovery | ||
| Age range of interval: | 443.80000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Llandoverian, pre-C3 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified sandstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Massive, gray sandstone | |||
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: Fluvial or marginal marine (BA 1).
SEP environmental call based on given info | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 12765 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Foote | Enterer: | M. Foote |
| Modifier: | M. Foote | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-12-04 10:42:06 | Last modified: | 2006-09-15 15:14:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-12-04 10:42:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4261. | R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner] |