Allens Creek, IU 15114-12000, 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)

• Lower Mississippian; equivalent to the Keokuk Limestone North American type section

• 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 Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details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 2252: 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 3622. Total biovolume abundance is 2912.1791.
unclassified
  -
"lithistid" indet.
"indet. sp. n.?" - originally entered as "lithistid indet. sp. n.?"
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
? Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Amplexizaphrentis? sp. B"
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp., "Platyceras (Orthonychia) acutirostra" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre, "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) acutirostra" = Palaeocapulus acutirostre Hall 1856 snail
originally entered as "Platyceras (Orthonychia) acutirostra"
"Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis Hall 1859 snail
originally entered as "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis"
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. A"
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. B"
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Saffordotaxis sp. Bassler 1952
originally entered as "Saffordotaxis sp,"
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Rhombopora sp. A"
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Cystodictya sp. A"
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Camerata -
Camerata indet. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Amphoracrinidae
Amphoracrinus sp. Austin 1848 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Inadunata -
Inadunata indet. Sea lily
"indet. poteriocrine sp. A" - originally entered as "Inadunata indet. poteriocrine sp. A"
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"
 Flexibilia -
 Dendrocrinida - Adinocrinidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites cf. glenni Sea lily
originally entered as "Cyathocrinites cf. glenni"
 Poteriocrinina - Poteriocrinitidae
? Springericrinus ? doris Sea lily
originally entered as "Springericrinus? doris?"
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
 Disparida - Catillocrinidae
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Asterozoa
  -
"Stelleroidea indet." = Asterozoa
"Stelleroidea indet." = Asterozoa von Zittel 1895