Eby Pit upper bench coal site 2: Desmoinesian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Synchysidendron resinosum
0.25 grid-count
Lycopodiopsida - Isoetales
Paralycopodites brevifolius
35.79 grid-count
unclassified
Medullosa spp.
44.89 grid-count
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
Sphenophyllum plurifoliatum
3.95 grid-count
Pinopsida
Pennsylvanioxylon nauertianum
0.06 grid-count
Coenopteridales
Stelastellara parvula Baxter 1965
0.06 grid-count
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Calamodendron americanum
3.2 grid-count
Polypodiopsida - Marattiales - Marattiaceae
Psaronius spp.
9.23 grid-count
Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendraceae indet.
1.19 grid-count
Lepidophloios hallii
1.31 grid-count
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Warrick County
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 87.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.0° South, 24.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4-5
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous *Local age/stage:Late/Upper Desmoinesian
Key time interval:Desmoinesian
Age range of interval:312.70000 - 305.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Carbondale Member:Springfield Coal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Eby Pit of the Peabody Coal Company Lynnville Mine.
Equivalent to late Westphalian D.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal ball
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Coal balls; The upper bench of the Springfield Coal, continuous wiht the main coal bed at the edge of the split, is present over most of the Folsomville Member and varies widely in character. In some sections it appears as a normally brightly-banded bituminous coal. In other areas, it appears as a clastic-rich coal or organic shale and in some cases, the clastic-rich layers may be intermixed iwth more coaly layers or grade upward into a normally bright-banded coal.
Environment:mire/swamp
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,peel or thin section,field collection
Rock censused:2366 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:UI 26792-26823
Database number:11042
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon, S. Ostrowski
Modifier:H. Lindon Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-07-09 11:35:12 Last modified:2002-06-27 10:12:58
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-09 11:35:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4066. T. L. Phillips and W.A. DiMichele. 1998. A Transect through a Clastic-swamp to Peat-swamp Ecotene in the Springfield Coal, Middle Pennsylvanian Age of Indiana, USA. Palaios 13:113-128 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]