Boy Scout Camp, IU 15109-3000, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

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

• This represents a subaqueous delta platform environment. The interdistributary mudstone facies is interpreted to have been deposited on the lee side of carbonate bank on the delta platform.

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 Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details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

• The fanua at this locality are part of the interdistributary mudstone community of Ausich, Kammer, and Lane, 1979. See reference #557. This community has also been termed the equitable diversity community. Total numeric abundance is 47943. Total biovolume abundance is 756.1102.
unclassified
  -
"stenotoporid" indet.
"indet. sp. A" - originally entered as "stenotoporid indet. sp. A"
"stenotoporid" indet.
"indet. sp. B" - originally entered as "stenotoporid indet. sp. B"
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
 Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
? Sorosphaera sp. Brady 1879
originally entered as "Sorosphaera? sp."
Thuramminoides sp. Plummer 1945
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus longi tabulate coral
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"? Neilsonia springeri" = Lunulazona springeri
"? Neilsonia springeri" = Lunulazona springeri Lane et al. 1973 snail
originally entered as "Neilsonia? springeri"
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella ? lens White 1862
originally entered as "Schuchertella lens?"
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida -
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gymnolaemata
 Ctenostomata - Ascodictyidae
 Ctenostomata - Ropalonariidae
Ropalonaria sp. Ulrich 1879
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. A"
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. B"
 Cryptostomata - Worthenoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Nicklesopora sp. Bassler 1952
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Saffordotaxis sp. Bassler 1952
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Rhombopora sp. A"
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Cystodictya sp. A"
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
 Cyclostomata - Corynotrypidae
Corynotrypa sp. Bassler 1911
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Corynotrypa sp. A"
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Camerata -
Camerata indet. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Inadunata -
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin