Crawfordsville, Upper Quarry, Bed 9 (Carboniferous to of the United States)

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 siltstone

• fossiliferous 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 8114: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• does not include bryozoans
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus alternatus Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Griffithides bufo" = Hesslerides bufo
"Griffithides bufo" = Hesslerides bufo Meek and Worthen 1870 trilobite
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Pachylocrinidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae