Underwood Bed Fauna, New Albany shale, southern Indiana (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Indiana (38.5° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Clegg Creek Member (New Albany Shale Formation), Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green shale and phosphorite

• 11 cm thick greenish grey shale, the upper part of which contains a layer of small phosphatic nodules

Preservation: concretion, original calcite

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

• this collection is based on one bed sampled from a single locality

Primary reference: R. G. Maliva. 1984. Paleoecology and Sedimentology of the Rockford Limestone and Upper New Albany Shale (Lower Mississippian) in southern Indiana. 1-185 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 6732: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

• taxa denoted with a * were recovered in this study. faunal list compiled from Lineback (1964) I. U. Ph.D. dissertation; Lineback (1970) Ind. Geol. Sur. Bull. 44; and Campbell (1946) GSA Bull 57: 829-908.
unclassified
  -
Leodicites aff. imparilis
Leodicites aff. L. imparilis
Nereidavis sp.
both * Nereidavis sp. A, and Nereidavis sp. B
Pisces
  -
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
*
Conodonta
  -
Conodonta indet. conodont
* [entered as Condonta indet.]
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
*
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
*
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo ? sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia ? sp. Hall 1860 clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes ? sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
*
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Delthyris ? sp. Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris ? sp. North 1920
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia ? sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
*
Polychaeta
 Phyllodocemorpha -
  - Leodicidae
Eunicites ? sp. Ehlers 1868
*
 Eunicemorpha -
Arabellites cf. cultriformis
* Arabellites cf. A. cultriformis
Arabellites aff. comis
* Arabellites aff. A. comis
Arabellites cf. conspicuous
* Arabellites cf. A. conspicuous
Arabellites sp.
both * Arabellites sp. A, Arabellites sp. B