Locality 7, Bloomington Quad, Monroe Co. Indiana (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as I. U. locality 17447

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• Locality 7 contains Harrodsburg, Ramp Creek and Edwardsville Formations that cross the Osagean-Meramecian boundary.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• Lithology determined from stratigraphic column for locality 7.

Collection methods: A substantial collection of the macrofauna of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone, assembled by J. J. Galloway in the middle of this century and housed at Indiana University, was examined for comparative purposes and used as supplementary material for photography.

Primary reference: D. S. Hirt. 1988. Occurrence and Biochronology of Middle Missississian Brachiopods of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone, Indiana and Kentucky. 1-130 [A. Miller/D. Carlson/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 6787: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 16.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Based on Appendix D. Occurrence of brachiopod species by locality.
unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus alternatus Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"? Athyris densa" = Planalvus densa Hall and Clarke 1894
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyridinae indet. Fredericks 1926
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Skelidorygmidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
 Spiriferida - Imbrexiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae