Also known as Interdistributary Mudstone Facies; equitable diversity 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 (345.3 - 345.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, peloidal, gray shale and grainstone
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, 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 Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details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 2185: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 24.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895 | |
Thuramminoides sp. Plummer 1945 | |
Anthozoa | |
Cladochonus longi tabulate coral
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"? Neilsonia springeri" = Lunulazona springeri
"? Neilsonia springeri" = Lunulazona springeri Lane et al. 1973 snail originally entered as "Neilsonia? springeri"
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Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Productoidea indet. Gray 1840 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchopora beecheri George 1904 | |
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920 | |
Dielasma sp. King 1856 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Ropalonaria sp. Ulrich 1879 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Thamniscus sp. King 1849 | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Nicklesopora sp. Bassler 1952 | |
Saffordotaxis sp. Bassler 1952 | |
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957 | |
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Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Camerata indet. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885 Sea lily | |
Platycrinites nodostriatus Sea lily | |
Inadunata indet. Sea lily | |
Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus Sea lily | |
Barycrinus asteriscus Sea lily | |
Halysiocrinus tunicatus Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |