Locality 3, Glen Dean Limestone, Martin Co., IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Martin County, Indiana (38.6° N, 86.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.0° S, 33.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dibunophyllum zone, Glen Dean Limestone Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• collection taken from the Lower Glen Dean Limestone [JA: entered as Chesterian; the Glen Dean is late Hombergian = Pendleian]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; pyritic, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, cherty/siliceous grainstone

• hard, tan or gray, crystalline limestone that occurs in fairly massive beds; some beds oolitic; all beds fragmental in appearance and quite fossiliferous; common minerals include: dolomite, chert, pyrite, limonite and hematite;

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• listed with locality information is identification as collection 43

Primary reference: A. S. Horowitz. 1956. Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky. 1-449 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6926: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 12.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subquadrata
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Girtyella brevilobata
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus pileiformis