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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Edwardsville Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 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 sandstone

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 Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details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 2445: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 05.07.1999

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