Lineback #1 (Rockford Limestone): Kinderhookian, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Rugosa
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Rugosa indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Muensteroceratidae
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Muensteroceras oweni
(Hall 1859)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Muensteroceras parallelum
(Hall 1860)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
| "Twelve well preserved specimens and about 30 fragmentary individuals" | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Prionoceratidae
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Imitoceras rotatorium
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10 specimens | |||||||||
| "Ten specimens" | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Prolecanitida
- Prolecanitidae
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Protocanites lyoni
(Meek and Worthen 1860)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| "Three incomplete specimens and several fragments" | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Pseudorthocerida
- Pseudorthoceratidae
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Mooreoceras indianense
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| "Numerous fragmentary specimens" | ||||||||||
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Mooreoceras chouteauense
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| "Several" | ||||||||||
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Mooreoceras sp.
Miller et al. 1933
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| "Some of more than 60 fragmentary" specimens (the others referred to M. indianense and M. chouteauense) | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana | County: | Jackson |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 86.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.7° South, 34.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Tournaisian |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Hastarian | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Kinderhookian |
| Key time interval: | Kinderhookian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 358.9 - 351.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Rockford Limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,dolomitic,gray,green poorly lithified "limestone" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" | ||
| Lithology description: greenish gray (5gy 5/1) finely crystalline limestone...mottled with dusky green (5g 3/2) stains or bands. in some places it is dolomitic in varying degree. the upper few inches are ferruginous and rubbly or shaley and contain limestone nodules. | |||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Associated fossils include gastropods, horn corals, crinoid fragments, brachiopods and pelecypods. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5596 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-10-20 21:03:51 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 335. | J. A. Lineback. 1963. Age of the Rockford cephalopod fauna (Mississippian) of southern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 37(4):939-943 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 24589 | F. J. Gahn and T. K. Baumiller. 2004. A bootstrap analysis for comparative taphonomy applied to Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) crinoids from the Wassonville Cycle of Iowa. Palaios 19(1):17-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |