Falls of Ohio area: Middle Devonian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Anchiopsis sp. Delo 1935
unclassified
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristella nasuta (Conrad 1842)
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hadrophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Acrophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Kodonophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Calostylidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amplexidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Siphonophrentidae
Siphonophrentis elongata Rafinesque and Clifford 1820
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Halliidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Bethanyphyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Chonostegitidae
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora hisingeri Billings 1858
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Romingeriidae
Romingeria umbellifera (Billings 1859)
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Coenitidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Halysitidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Clark
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 85.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° South, 54.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
*Period:Middle Devonian
Key time interval: Middle Devonian
Age range of interval: 393.47 - 382.31 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jeffersonville Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: within the coral zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: medium-grained buff limestone; the basal 9-10 ft is known as the coral zone and is a biostrome composed of closely packed rugose and tabulate corals
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Jeffersonville Limestone (Falls of Ohio area)
Database number:5702
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-11-16 08:57:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-11-16 08:57:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
350. E. C. Stumm. 1964. Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio. The Geological Society of America Memoir 93:1-184 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]