Delta slope community - Carwood 22(4) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Floyd County, Indiana (38.3° N, 85.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Carwood Formation (Borden Group), Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• middle Mississippian Borden delta

Environment/lithology: slope; siltstone and silty shale

• delta slope
• Siltstone and silty shales are the dominant lithologies, and much of these sediments may have been deposited by turbidity currents

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W.I. Ausich, T.W. Kammer, and N.G. Lane. 1979. Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippian) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 53(5):1182-1196 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224228: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 01.02.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer washingtonensis
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Orthotetes keokuk
Orthotetes keokuk Hall 1858
A
 Productida - Productidae
Setigerites sp.