Jeffersonville Limestone (Falls of Ohio area): Eifelian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Chonostegitidae
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Romingeriidae
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Halliidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Bethanyphyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Eridophyllum seriale Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amplexidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Siphonophrentidae
Siphonophrentis elongata Rafinesque and Clifford 1820
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
Stage: Eifelian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
*Period:Middle Devonian
Key time interval: Eifelian Brachiopod zone:  Brevispirifer gregarious
Age range of interval: 393.47 - 387.95 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jeffersonville Limestone Member:Vernon Fork
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Brett, Baird, Bartholomew, DeSantis & Ver Straeten (2011): Brevispirifer gregarious zone is lower part of Vernon Fork member.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: medium-grained buff limestone; 10 ft. zone above the coral zone
Environment:marine indet.
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
Database number:5703
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-11-17 07:35:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-11-17 07:35:02
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]