Locality 16, Glen Dean Limestone, Perry Co., IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Perry County, Indiana (38.2° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° S, 27.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• medium to dk. gray, semicrystalline to crystalline limestone and argillaceous limestone occuring in beds that are usually less than 5 ft. thick and averaging about 2 ft. in thickness; dk. gray, thin bedded shale and argillaceous sandstone, locally fossiliferous, separate stratigraphically adjacent limestone beds

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• listed with locality information is identification as "collection 151"

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 6941: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Zeacrinitidae
Zeacrinites sp. Burdick and Strimple 1971 Sea lily
Z. sp. C
 Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
 Cladida - Eupachycrinidae
Blastoidea
 Spiraculata - Pentremitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer increbescens Hall 1858
Spirifer increbescens var. A
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia contracta Meek and Worthen 1866
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans
"Productus cestriensis" = Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella costatula Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae