IU 15107 Waldrip, Lake Monroe (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.1° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Edwardsville Formation, Early/Lower Mississippian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified sandstone

• Borden Delta Complex
• distributary sandstone channel facies

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and W. I. Ausich. 1981. Lower Mississippian sponges from the Edwardsville Formation, southern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 55(2):370-382 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111786: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
Hydnoangulus quadratus n. gen. n. sp., ? Hydriodictya cyclix
Hydnoangulus quadratus n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Ausich 1981 glass sponge
? Hydriodictya cyclix Hall and Clarke 1899 glass sponge