Allens Creek, float. Skeletal carbonate bank facies (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Skeletal carbonate bank facies; monobathrid-disparid community; Allens Creek, float, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., IN

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.0° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Edwardsville Formation, Osagean (353.8 - 342.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: 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 Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details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 2455: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 05.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The fauna from this locality are part of the carbonate bank community of Ausich, Kammer, and Lane, 1979. See reference #558. This has also been termed the monobathrid-disparid crinoid community by the author. Total numeric abundance is 347.
unclassified
  -
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
"indet. C" - originally entered as "trace fossil indet. C"
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
"indet. E" - originally entered as "trace fossil indet. E"
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules"
Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Haplistion armstrongi Young and Young 1877 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
? Dictyospongia sp. Hall and Clarke 1899 glass sponge
originally entered as "Dictyospongia? sp."
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Amplexizaphrentis sp. A"
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus beecheri Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis
"Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis" = Palaeocapulus equilateralis Hall 1859 snail
originally entered as "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis"
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer ? floydensis
originally entered as "Spirifer floydensis?"
 Spiriferida - Imbrexiidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina obmaxima McChesney 1861
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. B"
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Ptylopora sp. McCoy 1844
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Amphoracrinidae
Amphoracrinus sp. Austin 1848 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus ? cassedayanus Sea lily
originally entered as "Eretmocrinus cassedayanus?"
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Macrocrinus strotobasilaris Ausich and Lane 1982 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Sagenocrinida - Nipterocrinidae
 Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
Onychocrinus sp. Lyon and Cassidy 1860 Sea lily
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Onychocrinus sp. A"
 Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Hypselocrinus sp. Kirk 1940 Sea lily
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Hypselocrinus sp. B"
 Dendrocrinida - Staphylocrinidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
 Poteriocrinina - Poteriocrinitidae
? Springericrinus ? doris Sea lily
originally entered as "Springericrinus? doris?"
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
 Disparida - Catillocrinidae
Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
"Granatocrinus ? granulosus" = Poroblastus granulosus
"Granatocrinus ? granulosus" = Poroblastus granulosus Meek and Worthen 1865 blastoid
originally entered as "Grantocrinus granulosus?"
Asteroidea
 Hadrosida - Palaeasteridae
Neopalaeaster ? crawfordsvillensis Miller 1880 sea star
originally entered as "Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis?"
unclassified
  -
Chordata indet. Haeckel 1874
Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Chomatodus sp. Agassiz 1838 chimaera