Lagoon community, Keyser Limestone: Early/Lower Devonian, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Gastropoda - Archaeogastropoda
? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925
gastropods - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Rhynchospirina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Protathyris sp.
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
Machaeraria sp. Cooper 1955
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Cupularostrum sp. Sartenaer 1961
Rhynchotreta sp. Hall 1879
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
? Eccentricosta sp.
originally entered as "? Eccentricosta sp."
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Fenestrata indet. (Elias and Condra 1957)
synonym of Fenestelloidea
fenestrate bryozoan; most common bryozoan
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
? Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose bryozoan - originally entered as "? Trepostomata indet."
Rhombifera - Callocystitidae
Lepocrinites manlius
Anthozoa
Tabulata indet. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
favositid
Anthozoa - Rugosa
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
rugosan
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporoidea
Stromatoporoidea indet. Nicholson and Murie 1878
domal and digitate
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 39.6° North, 77.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° South, 30.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1-2
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Devonian
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Keyser Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: "earliest Dev? (overlies Tonoloway Ls)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,peloidal lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: "carbonates; nodular pelmicrites, peloidal calcarenites, some bioturbation; some small oncolites, some stromatopoid biostromes. BA2, back-barrier lagoon; shallow subtidal"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Makurath, 1977"
Metadata
Database number:650
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-06 17:12:16 Last modified:2017-01-04 16:26:55
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-06 17:12:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
60973. J. H. Makurath. 1977. Marine faunal assemblages in the Siurian-Devonian Keyser Limestone of the central Appalachians. Lethaia 10:235-256 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]