Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.3° N, 86.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 33.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ramp Creek Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)
• time subdivisions based on Ausich et al. 1994, Paleobiology: 345-361
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; burrowed, concretionary, gray grainstone
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• faunal surveys taken at all units, only shale units collected for thin section study
Primary reference: D. A. Forbes. 1975. Depositional History of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone (Mississippian) Kinser Pike Section, Monroe County, Indiana. 1-100 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 6670: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 09.03.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Demospongiae | |
Belemnospongia fascicularis demosponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral | |
Hapsiphyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Sandalodus sp. Newberry and Worthen 1866 chimaera | |
Crinoidea | |
Baryschyr anosus Sea lily | |
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Dichocrinus striatus Sea lily | |
"Platycrinus sp." = Platycrinites
"Platycrinus sp." = Platycrinites Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena convexa Weller 1914 |