Kinser Pike, unit 24, 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; glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, green grainstone and shale

• taken from figure 3 strat column: calcarenite, lt. gray, medium grained, bedded, shaly partings, glauconitic, laminae with lacy bryozoans

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 6699: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
"Triplophyllites sp." = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites sp." = Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan 1906 horn coral
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus beecheri
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria verneuiliana
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp., Cleiothyridina hirsuta, Athyris parvirostra, Composita cf. trinuclea
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Perditocardinia cf. dubia
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp.
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer cf. washingtonensis, Spirifer tenuimarginatus, Spirifer tenuicostatus, Unispirifer lateralis
 Spiriferida - Imbrexiidae
Imbrexia forbesi
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productus sp.
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus sp.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp.
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Palaechinoidea - Palaechinidae
Melonechinus sp.
Melonechinus sp. sea urchin
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Dizygocrinus sp.
Dizygocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites sp.
Pentremites sp. Say 1820 blastoid