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
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 | |
Anthozoa | |
Cystiphylloides nanum horn coral
Cystiphylloides quadrangulare horn coral
Cystiphylloides tenuiradium horn coral | |
Bethanyphyllum depresstum horn coral
Bethanyphyllum vesiculatum horn coral | |
Cylindrophyllum compactum horn coral | |
Heliophyllum agassizi horn coral | |
Heterophrentis annulata, Heterophrentis cyathiformis, Heterophrentis ovalis, Heterophrentis trisutura
Heterophrentis annulata horn coral
Heterophrentis cyathiformis horn coral
Heterophrentis ovalis horn coral
Heterophrentis trisutura horn coral | |
Disphyllum cohaerens horn coral
Hexagonaria ponderosa horn coral | |
Amplexiphyllum cruciforme horn coral
Amplexiphyllum ? simplex horn coral
Amplexiphyllum tenue horn coral | |
Acrophyllum rugosum horn coral | |
Blothrophyllum bellicinctum horn coral | |
Aulocystis ? incrustans tabulate coral | |
Emmonsia cymosa tabulate coral | |
Trilobita | |
Coronura aspectans trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852 |