Fauna from the Henryville Bed of the Clegg Creek Member, New Albany Shale (Upper (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Indiana (38.7° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Clegg Creek Member (New Albany Shale Formation), Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• The Henryville bed contains conodonts that correlate with the middle part of the Hannibal Shale.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; burrowed, black, carbonaceous shale

• The New Albany Shale in Indiana was deposited in a shallow marine environment under reducing conditions that were caused by lack of water circulation.
• brownish-black to black fissile shale; carbon-rich; upper inch commonly contains burrows or trails; thickness ranges from 0.4 to 1.4 feet in indiana

Collection methods: faunal data includes information compiled from Kindle, 1901; Huddle, 1933; and Campbell, 1946 in addition to field collections

Primary reference: J. A. Lineback. 1964. Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the New Albany Shale (Upper Devonian and Lower Mississippian) in Indiana. 1-136 [A. Miller/D. Carlson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6998: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 18.04.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The list indicates that trails are found, in addition to the other fauna for this bed.
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Conodonta
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Conodonta indet.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp.
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847