Sample 10, Waynesville Fm., Ripley Co., IN: Richmondian, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Batostomellidae
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| B. gracilis var. meeki | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Heterotrypidae
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Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Ceramoporidae
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Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Constellariidae
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana | County: | Ripley |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 86.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.0° South, 113.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 | *Epoch: | Richmond |
| Key time interval: | Richmondian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 449.6 - 445.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Waynesville | Local bed: | 10 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray argillaceous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: soft gray shale and gray to blue clay interbedded with gray to purple, argillaceous limestone. the shales and the limestones are fossilliferous, and the latter commonly approaches a coquina. in general, the limestone layers range from 2 to 8 inches in thickness, and the shale and clay beds from 0.5 to 3 feet. | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with calcite |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Collection methods: The creek bed at the base of the section was used as a datum plane and the section was divided into 15 five-foot zones and an upper 3 ft. zone, with a collection taken from each zone. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 6909 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-04-10 10:55:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 432. | D. E. Von Tress. 1954. Some Waynesville and Liberty Bryozoa from Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana. 1-62 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen] |