Allens Creek, IU 15114-10000, 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 (345.3 - 345.0 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 Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details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 2251: 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 56504. Total biovolume abundance is 815.8450.
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
 Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
Thuramminoides sp. Plummer 1945
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules"
Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Haplistion armstrongi Young and Young 1877 demosponge
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Cistodictya sp. A"
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. B"
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateris" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis, Platyceras sp.
"Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateris" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis Hall 1859 snail
originally entered as "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateris"
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Inadunata -
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"
 Dendrocrinida - Adinocrinidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
 Flexibilia -
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
 Camerata -
Camerata indet. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Amphoracrinidae
Amphoracrinus sp. Austin 1848 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Eocaudina sp. Martin 1952 sea cucumber
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin