Crotalocrinites-Eucalyptocrinites Association of the Gower Formation: Silurian - Wenlock, Illinois

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Stromotoporoidea indet.
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Crinoidea - Cyathocrinida - Crotalocrinitidae
Crotalocrinites cf. cora
Crinoidea
Icthyocrinus subangularis
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
Dimerocrinites occidentalis
Dimerocrinites sp. Phillips 1839
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Lampterocrinidae
Siphonocrinus nobilis
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Periechocrinidae
Periechocrinus cf. marcouanus
Periechocrinus necis
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Eucalyptocrinitidae
Eucalyptocrinites cf. ornatus
Calliocrinus cornutus
Rhombifera - Caryocrinitidae
Caryocrinites sp. Say 1825
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Hedeina sp. Boucot 1957
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
Cephalopoda
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Tremanotus sp. (Hall 1868)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina
    = Murchisoniidae sp. Koken 1896
Wagner 2023
    = Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841
    = Loxonematidae sp. Koken 1889
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Naticonema sp. Perner 1903
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
? Lytospira sp. Koken 1896
    = ? Pachystrophia sp. Perner 1903
Wagner 2023
Lytospira is Ordovician only...
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus sp. Sowerby 1814
    = Euomphalidae sp. White 1877
Wagner 2023
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Amphicoelia sp. Hall 1865
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastus sp. Murchison 1839
Anthozoa - Rugosa
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Fletcheriidae
Fletcheria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Halysitidae
? Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Illinois County:Rock Island County
Coordinates: 41.5° North, 90.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.9° South, 55.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian
*Period:Late/Upper Silurian - Early/Lower Silurian *Epoch:Lludlow - Late/Upper Wenlock
Key time interval:Silurian - Wenlock
Age range of interval:443.80000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gower Member:LeClaire
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,grading,dolomitic lithified wackestone
Lithology description: Often very fossiliferous. The crinoid-dominated areas are mostly inclined-bedded, vuggy, porous, noncherty, crinoid-moldic dolowackestones, though occasionally dolopackstones-grainstones occur also... Sedimentary textures and fossil occurrences are identical to those seen in Racine mounds, but typically the fauna (e.g., brachiopods, corals, echinoderms) is much less diverse. Local graded bedding, debris wedges, and mound fissures packed with trilobites or nautiloids (forming very local trilobite-moldic and nautiloid-moldic dolowackestones-packstones) are common.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Glacial or sequence phase:highstand systems tract
Geology comments: SEP environmental call based on given description and same vol. page 807.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 817
Database number:13355
Authorizer:M. Foote, P. Wagner Enterer:K. Koverman, P. Wagner
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-03-04 08:25:50 Last modified:2008-03-03 06:40:04
Access level:the public Released:2002-03-04 08:25:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4379. T. J. Frest, C. E. Brett, and B. J. Witzke. 1999. Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 638-783 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]