Kinser Pike, unit 21, Harrodsburg Limestone, IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.3° N, 86.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harrodsburg Limestone Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• time subdivisions based on Ausich et al. 1994, Paleobiology 20: 345-361

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

• taken from figure 3 strat column: calcarenite, v. lt. to med. lt. gray, fine-grained, bioclastic, divided by coarse lag zone

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• faunal surveys taken at all units, only shale units collected for thin section study

Primary reference: D. A. Forbes. 1975. Depositional History of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone (Mississippian) Kinser Pike Section, Monroe County, Indiana. 1-100 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 6681: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 09.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus sp.
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp., Cleiothyridina hirsuta
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Dizygocrinus sp.
Dizygocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily