Where: Indiana (39.8° N, 86.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° S, 32.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Edwardsville Formation, Chadian to Chadian (345.3 - 342.8 Ma)
• "Mid-Miss. (upper Osage)"
•JA: the late Osagean is late Chadian and Arundian, i.e., entirely Visean, according to Kammer and Ausich 2007
Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; siltstone
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: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 557: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.01.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910 | |
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Thuramminoides sp. Plummer 1945 | |
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Tubothalamea | |
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Rhodophyceae | |
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Anthozoa | |
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral | |
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral | |
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral 2 species - originally entered as "Amplexzaphrentis sp."
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Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Neilsonia sp. Thomas 1940 snail | |
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Rostroconchia | |
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835 | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904 | |
Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950 | |
Subglobosochonetes sp. Afanasjeva 1976 | |
Heteralosia sp. King 1938 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865 | |
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920 | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844 | |
Tylothyris sp. North 1920 | |
Dielasma sp. King 1856 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania sp. Raymond 1910 | |
Lingulata | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Ropalonaria sp. Ulrich 1879 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Thamniscus sp. King 1849 | |
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Saffordotaxis sp. Bassler 1952 | |
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Hyolitha | |
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Polychaeta | |
Turrilepas sp. Woodward 1865 scale worm | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
Tentaculita | |
Cornulitella sp. Howell 1952 | |
Trilobita | |
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Crinoidea | |
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Paradichocrinus sp. Springer 1926 Sea lily
Dichocrinus sp. Munster 1839 Sea lily | |
Dorycrinus sp. Roemer 1854 Sea lily
Agaricocrinus sp. Austin 1851 Sea lily | |
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Dizygocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily | |
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Gilbertsocrinus sp. Phillips 1836 Sea lily | |
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Nipterocrinus sp. Sea lily | |
Onychocrinus sp. Lyon and Cassidy 1860 Sea lily | |
Parichthyocrinus sp. Springer 1902 Sea lily
Taxocrinus sp. Phillips 1843 Sea lily | |
Histocrinus sp. Kirk 1940 Sea lily | |
Pachylocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1879 Sea lily | |
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Decadocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1879 Sea lily | |
Springericrinus sp. Jaekel 1918 Sea lily | |
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Synbathocrinus sp. Phillips 1836 Sea lily | |
Halysiocrinus sp. Ulrich 1886 Sea lily | |
Catillocrinus sp. Shumard 1886 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
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Holothuroidea | |
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Asterozoa | |
"Stelleroidea indet." = Asterozoa
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Scalarituba sp., "Zoophycus sp." = Zoophycos
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