Where: Montgomery County, Indiana (40.0° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 32.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Edwardsville Member (Muldraugh Formation), Chadian to Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)
• JA: the late Osagean is Chadian and Arundian according to Heckel and Clayton 2006
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and siltstone
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: N. G. Lane, J. L. Matthews, E. G. Driscoll and E. L. Yochelson. 1973. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Crawfordsville fossil site (Upper Osagian: Indiana). University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 99:1-141 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8072: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Taxocrinus sp. Phillips 1843 Sea lily | |
Decadocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1879 Sea lily | |
Cyathocrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Barycrinus asteriscus Sea lily | |
Gilbertsocrinus sp. Phillips 1836 Sea lily | |
Paradichocrinus sp. Springer 1926 Sea lily
Dichocrinus sp. Munster 1839 Sea lily | |
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily | |
Platycrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844 | |
Strophomenata | |
Foraminifera | |
"Rheophax lachrymosa" = Reophax
"Rheophax lachrymosa" = Reophax | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Stacheia sp. Brady 1876 |