Waldrip Site, IU 15101 & 15127, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., Indiana (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Distributary Sandstone Channel Facies, poteriocrine inadunate community

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.0° N, 86.3° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 32.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Edwardsville Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, burrowed sandstone and siltstone

• Subaqueous sandstone channel deposits surrounded by and interbedded with siltstones; sandstones smothered by siltstone in places leading to interbedded nature

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich. 1978. Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana). Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2059: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 18.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• This is taxonomic information for a specific locality of a distributary channel facies. Ausich, Kammer, and Lane, 1979, lists taxa occuring in this type of facies thoughout the Borden Delta. See PMPD numder 556. The taxa in this list are referred to as the poteriocrine inadunate community.
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unclassified
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"Metazoa indet." = Animalia, "Metazoa indet." = Animalia
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
originally entered as "trace fossil A"
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
originally entered as "trace fossil D"
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp.
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
Physospongia aff. colletti, ? Dictyospongia sp.
Physospongia aff. colletti glass sponge
"sp. aff. colletti" - originally entered as "Physospongia sp. aff. colletti"
? Dictyospongia sp. Hall and Clarke 1899 glass sponge
originally entered as "Dictyospongia? sp."
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Inadunata -
Inadunata indet.
Inadunata indet. Sea lily
"indet. poteriocrine sp. F" - originally entered as "Inadunata indet. poteriocrine sp. F"
 Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
Onychocrinus sp., Onychocrinus sp.
Onychocrinus sp. Lyon and Cassidy 1860 Sea lily
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Onychocrinus sp. B"
Onychocrinus sp. Lyon and Cassidy 1860 Sea lily
"sp. C" - originally entered as "Onychocrinus sp. C"
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Taxocrinus ? ungula
Taxocrinus ? ungula Sea lily
originally entered as "Taxocrinus ungula?"
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Holcocrinus nodobrachiatus, Decadocrinus depressus
 Poteriocrinina - Bursacrinidae
Lebetocrinus grandis
 Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Scytalocrinus robustus, Histocrinus coreyi, Histocrinus graphicus, Hypselocrinus sp., Hypselocrinus hoveyi
Histocrinus graphicus Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily
Hypselocrinus sp. Kirk 1940 Sea lily
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Hypselocrinus sp. A"
Hypselocrinus hoveyi Worthen 1875 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Zeacrinitidae
Sarocrinus nitidus, Eratocrinus salemensis
 Dendrocrinida - Pachylocrinidae
Pachylocrinus briareus, Pachylocrinus gibsoni
 Dendrocrinida - Staphylocrinidae
Abrotocrinus coreyi, Abrotocrinus unicus, Hylodecrinus sculptus
 Cyathocrinida - Euspirocrinidae
Parisocrinus sp.
Parisocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1880 Sea lily
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus, Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus asteriscus, Barycrinus stenobrachium
 Cladida -
Saccosompsis poterium
Saccosompsis poterium Sea lily
originally entered as "Saccosomopsis poterium"
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus, Cribanocrinus coxanus
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Dichocrinus ulrichi
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Macrocrinus strotobasilaris, Macrocrinus ? mundulus, Uperocrinus apheles, Eretmocrinus magnificus
Macrocrinus strotobasilaris Ausich and Lane 1982 Sea lily
Macrocrinus ? mundulus Hall 1859 Sea lily
originally entered as "Macrocrinus mundulus?"
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Camptocrinus plenicirrus, Platycrinites hemisphericus, Platycrinites nodostriatus
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora compressa
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp., Archimedes cf. negligens
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Archimedes cf. negligens
originally entered as "Archimedes cf. negligens"
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp.
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Penniretepora sp.
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya lineata
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp.
Dielasma sp. King 1856
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Productoidea indet.
 Ichnofossils -
Scalarituba missouriensis, Chondrites sp.
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833