Crawfordsville, Upper Quarry, Bed 16: Chadian - Arundian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Staphylocrinidae
5 specimens
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Pachylocrinidae
3 specimens
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Hypselocrinus hoveyi (Worthen 1875)
1 specimen
8 specimens
4 specimens
Crinoidea - Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
3 specimens
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
3 specimens
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
13 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Abatocrinus grandis (Lyon and Casseday 1859)
1 specimen
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
19 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
1 specimen
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
9 specimens
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Orthotetes keokuk (Hall 1858)
2 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
6 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus alternatus (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
13 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
9 specimens
3 specimens
2 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
24 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
5 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
5 specimens
2 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
5 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
1 specimen
sgn. (Myalina)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
1 specimen
unclassified
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Griffithides bufo (Meek and Worthen 1870)
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Quasillitidae
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina sp. Coryell 1928
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Montgomery
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 86.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° South, 49.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous
*International age/stage:Ivorian - Chadian *Local age/stage:Late/Upper Osagean
Key time interval: Chadian - Arundian
Age range of interval: 346.7 - 339.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Muldraugh Member:Edwardsville
Local section:Upper Quarry Local bed:16
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: JA: the late Osagean is Chadian and Arundian according to Heckel and Clayton 2006
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified siltstone
Lithology description: fossiliferous siltstone
Environment:delta front Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,mechanical,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:does not include bryozoans
Metadata
Database number:8121
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-20 18:16:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
540. N. G. Lane, J. L. Matthews, E. G. Driscoll and E. L. Yochelson. 1973. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Crawfordsville fossil site (Upper Osagian: Indiana). University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 99:1-141 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]