Big Creek, Locality 3 (Silurian of the United States)

Also known as Foerste Locality 74

Where: Jefferson County, Indiana (38.8° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 53.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Osgood Formation, Clinton (439.0 - 438.0 Ma)

• Salamonie Dolomite now.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: C. R. C. Paul. 1971. Revision of the Holocystites fauna (Diploporita) of North America. Fieldiana Geology 24:1-166 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174514: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
 Sphaeronitida - Holocystitidae
"Holocystites spangleri" = Holocystites (Sepulticystis) spangleri Miller 1891
"Holocystites alternatus" = Holocystites (Holocystites) alternatus Hall 1861