New Providence basin-floor community, New Providence Fm. (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Indiana (38.5° N, 85.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: New Providence Shale Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• "Mid Mississippian, lower Osage"

Environment/lithology: prodelta; green shale

• "clay shale, green. Prodelta, basin floor, up to 150 m depth, little current, poorly oxygenated. BA6"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich, T. W. Kammer, and N. G. Lane. 1979. Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippi) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 53:1182-1196 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 551: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.03.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Ausich et al. 1979. Conkin 1957 Bull Amer. Paleo 38:109-157 may have additional info on the fauna and lithology"
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp.
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
Blastoidea
  -
Blastoidea indet.
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid
blastoids
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoids
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp.
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp.
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp.
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Merocanites sp., Protocanites sp.
Merocanites sp. Schindewolf 1922 ammonite
Protocanites sp. Schmidt 1922 ammonite
originally entered as "Protoconites sp."
 Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae
Beyrichoceras sp.
Beyrichoceras sp. Foord 1903 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Pericyclidae
Pericyclus sp., Ammonellipsites sp.
Pericyclus sp. Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite
Ammonellipsites sp. Parkinson 1822 ammonite
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp.
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Sinuitina sp.
Sinuitina sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema sp.
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Glabrocingulum sp.
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia sp.
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Griffithides sp.
Griffithides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Ichnofossils -
Scalarituba sp.
Scalarituba sp. Weller 1899
trace fossil