Jeffersonville Limestone 3 (Falls of Ohio area) (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Indiana (38.5° N, 85.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° S, 34.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Paraspirifer acuminatus brachiopod zone, Vernon Fork Member (Jeffersonville Limestone Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Brett, Baird, Bartholomew, DeSantis & Ver Straeten (2011): Paraspirifer acuminatus zone is upper part of Vernon Fork member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• medium-grained buff limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. C. Stumm. 1964. Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio. The Geological Society of America Memoir 93:1-184 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5706: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 17.11.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Bethanyphyllidae
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
 Stauriida - Acrophyllidae
 Stauriida - Halliidae
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Emmonsia cymosa tabulate coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852