Sulphur (Basal Meter of Haney Limestone) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as IU 13996

Where: Crawford County, Indiana (38.3° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 26.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Haney Limestone Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• "Middle Chesterian" (shown on section as middle Hombergian = Pendleian)

•"lowermost meter" of the formation in this section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• "This unit represents and intermediate stage in transgression of marine carbonates over strandline clastics... the Haney consists of shallow water carbonates... controlled by shifting oolite banks"
• "a thin sequence of interbedded shales and thin lenses of bioclastic limestone"

•lithified based on preservation of specimens

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Indiana University collection

•collector unclear

Primary reference: J. R. Welch. 1978. Pterotocrinus rugosus Lyon and Casseday from the middle Chesterian of the Illinois Basin. Journal of Paleontology 52:904-915 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90812: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Acrocrinitidae
Acrocrinus constrictus
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus rugosus
 Cladida - Phanocrinidae
Pentaramicrinus bimagnaramus