Meadel Ditch Quarry: Kinderhookian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
Rineceras ? digonum (Meek and Worthen 1860)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aipoceratidae
? Aipoceras sp. Hyatt 1883
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
? Mooreoceras sp. Miller et al. 1933
4 specimens
synonym of Pseudorthoceras
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prodromitidae
Prodromites gorbyi (Miller 1891)
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Gattendorfia alteri n. sp.
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Poterioceratidae
? Poterioceras sp. M'Coy 1844
3 specimens
"probably... two species"
Welleroceras liratum
1 specimen
Ophiocistioidea - Rotasacciidae
Microantyx botoni n. sp. Gutschick 1959
Gutschick 1959
recombined as Protocaudina botoni
Holothuroidea - Apodida - Myriotrochidae
Rota campbelli n. sp. Gutschick 1959
Gutschick 1959
recombined as Langepis campbelli
Holothuroidea - Apodida - Achistridae
Achistrum ludwigi (Croneis and McCormack 1932)
Gutschick 1959
Aschistrum triassicum (Frizzell and Exline 1955)
Gutschick 1959
original and current combination Achistrum triassicum
Achistrum nicholsoni Etheridge 1881
Gutschick 1959
Achistrum brevis n. sp. Gutschick 1959
Gutschick 1959
Holothuroidea - Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Thuroholia mccormacki (Frizzell and Exline 1955)
Gutschick 1959
original and current combination Eocaudina mccormacki
Thuroholia marginata Langenheim and Epis 1957
Gutschick 1959
recombined as Eocaudina marginata
Thuroholia spicatus n. sp. Gutschick 1959
Gutschick 1959
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Jasper
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 87.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° South, 34.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
Key time interval:Kinderhookian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 351.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rockford Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The holothurian fauna was obtained from water washings of shales which occur as partings up to a few inches thick between thin limestone layers in the upper part of the Rockford limestone unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified mudstone
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "from the shale partings between the limestone beds in the section formerly quarried"
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,sieve,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: "collected during several years of quarry operations by Mr. Chris E. Alter... this fauna... represents the total number of specimens to come from this location and be preserved"
Metadata
Also known as:Remington
Database number:69302
Authorizer:J. Alroy, L. Villier Enterer:J. Alroy, L. Villier
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-24 11:08:27 Last modified:2010-02-01 01:59:53
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-24 11:08:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19972. R. C. Gutschick and J. F. Treckman. 1957. Lower Mississippian cephalopods from the Rockford Limestone of northern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 31(6):1148-1153 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

31670 R. C. Gutschick. 1959. Lower Mississippian holothurian sclerites from the Rockford Limestone of northern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 33:130-137 [L. Villier/L. Villier]