Allens Creek, IU 15114-4000, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., IN: Chadian, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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12.1740 %-volume | |||||||||
| "indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules" | ||||||||||
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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33.9131 %-volume | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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47.8260 %-volume | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Fenestrata
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Fenestrata indet.
(Elias and Condra 1957)
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6.0868 %-volume | |||||||||
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Ammodiscidae
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Ammodiscus sp.
Reuss 1862
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trace %-volume | |||||||||
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Psammosphaeridae
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Thuramminoides sp.
Plummer 1945
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trace %-volume | |||||||||
| trace %-volume | ||||||||||
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Cornuspiridae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana | County: | Monroe |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 86.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° South, 50.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 | *Epoch: | Visean |
| *International age/stage: | Chadian | *Local age/stage: | Keokuk |
| Key time interval: | Chadian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 346.7 - 339.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Edwardsville | ||
| Local section: | IU 15114 | Local bed: | 4000 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | dunes,grading lithified grainstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone | ||
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
| Geology comments: This is a carbonate bank located on a subaqueous delta platform. Siltstone surrounds the bank, and can be found interspersed within the bank itself. | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,mechanical,sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:The fauna from this locality are part of the carboante bank community of Ausich, Kammer, and Lane, 1979. See reference number 558. This has also been termed the monobathrid-disparid community by the author. Total numeric abundance is 81924. Total biovolume abundance is 23.2963. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Skeletal carbonate bank facies; monobathrid-disparid community | ||
| Database number: | 2249 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | A. Webber |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-06-29 09:50:52 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55. | W. I. Ausich. 1978. Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana). Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement] |