Rockford Limestone Co. Mine, Louisville Ls. (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Mercer County, Ohio (40.5° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 51.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Louisville Limestone Formation, Niagaran (438.0 - 421.3 Ma)
• "M. Sil."
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; dolomite
• "dolomite and ls, reefy. Fort Wayne Bank. reef? ~BA3"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. H. Shaver. 1974. Silurian reefs of northern Indiana: reef and interreef macrofaunas. AAPG Bulletin 58:934-956 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 475: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.12.1998, edited by Alycia Stigall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "R.H. Shaver, 1974. Silurian reefs of northern Indiana: reef and interreef macrofaunas. AAPG Bull. 58:934-956"
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Crinoidea | |
Eucalyptocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily | |
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Megacystites sp. Frest et al. 2011 | |
Rhombifera | |
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Lingulata | |
Trimerella sp. Billings 1862 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Whitfieldella sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Rhynchotreta sp. Hall 1879 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
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Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867 | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Semicoscinium sp. Prout 1859 | |
Gastropoda | |
Tremanotus sp. Hall 1868 snail | |
"Diaphorostoma sp." = Platyostoma, Strophostylus sp.
"Diaphorostoma sp." = Platyostoma Conrad 1842 snail
Strophostylus sp. Hall 1859 snail | |
Euomphalus sp. Sowerby 1814 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Maelonoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
Hexameroceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
Phragmoceras sp. Broderip 1839 | |
Lechritrochoceras sp. Foerste 1926 | |
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Elrodoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Anthozoa | |
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral | |
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral | |
Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral |