Allens Creek, IU 15114-8000, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Skeletal carbonate bank facies; monobathrid-disparid community

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.0° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Edwardsville Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified grainstone and siltstone

• This is a carbonate bank located on a subaqueous delta platform. Siltstone surrounds the bank, and can be found interspersed within the bank itself.

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, sieve

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich. 1978. Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana). Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2250: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 29.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The fauna from this locality are part of the carboante bank community of Ausich, Kammer, and Lane, 1979. See reference number 558. This has also been termed the monobathrid-disparid community by the author. Total numeric abundance is 687. Total biovolume abundance is 554.9961.
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum sp.
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules"
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Inadunata -
Inadunata indet., Inadunata indet., Inadunata indet.
Inadunata indet. Sea lily
"indet. poteriocrine sp. B" - originally entered as "Inadunata indet. poteriocrine sp. B"
Inadunata indet. Sea lily
"indet. poteriocrine sp. E" - originally entered as "Inadunata indet. poteriocrine sp. E"
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus asteriscus
 Flexibilia -
Flexibilia indet.
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
 Camerata -
Camerata indet.
Camerata indet. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus magnificus
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Asterozoa
  -
"Stelleroidea indet." = Asterozoa
"Stelleroidea indet." = Asterozoa von Zittel 1895
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp., "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateris" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
"Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateris" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis Hall 1859 snail
originally entered as "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateris"
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina obmaxima
Cleiothyridina obmaxima McChesney 1861
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp.
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Rhombopora sp. A"