Allens Creek, float. Skeletal carbonate bank facies: Osagean, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal endothyrid indet.
Hondichnus monroensis
1 specimen
Metazoa indet. Haeckel 1874
synonym of Animalia
"indet. C" - originally entered as "trace fossil indet. C"
Metazoa indet. Haeckel 1874
synonym of Animalia
"indet. E" - originally entered as "trace fossil indet. E"
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules"
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
? Dictyospongia sp. Hall and Clarke 1899
originally entered as "Dictyospongia? sp."
Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Haplistion armstrongi Young and Young 1877
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus beecheri (Grabau 1899)
11 specimens
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Cyathaxonia cyndon
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906
2 specimens
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Amplexizaphrentis sp. A"
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Orthotetes sp.
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Imbrexiidae
Imbrexia montgomeryensis
29 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer ? floydensis
33 specimens
originally entered as "Spirifer floydensis?"
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina obmaxima (McChesney 1861)
6 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora beecheri George 1904
4 specimens
Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Phractopora sp.
1 specimen
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
1 specimen
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Ptylopora sp. McCoy 1844
1 specimen
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Cheilotrypa sp. Ulrich 1884
2 specimens
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Cheilotrypa sp. B"
Fistulipora compressa
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis (Hall 1859)
4 specimens
recombined as Palaeocapulus equilateralis
originally entered as "Platyceras (Platyceras) equilateralis"
unclassified
Chordata indet. Haeckel 1874
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Chomatodus sp. Agassiz 1838
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Staphylocrinidae
Abrotocrinus nodosus
6 specimens
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Hypselocrinus indianensis
1 specimen
Hypselocrinus sp. Kirk 1940
2 specimens
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Hypselocrinus sp. B"
Crinoidea - Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Poteriocrinina - Poteriocrinitidae
? Springericrinus ? doris
1 specimen
originally entered as "Springericrinus? doris?"
Crinoidea - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus asteriscus
3 specimens
Barycrinus hoveyi
6 specimens
Crinoidea - Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
Onychocrinus sp. Lyon and Cassidy 1860
1 specimen
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Onychocrinus sp. A"
Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Nipterocrinidae
Nipterocrinus monroensis
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
20 specimens
Crinoidea - Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus
33 specimens
Crinoidea - Catillocrinidae
Catillocrinus turbinatus
5 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinites saffordi
3 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Amphoracrinidae
Amphoracrinus sp. Austin 1848
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites gibsoni
4 specimens
Actinocrinites grandissimus
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus ? cassedayanus
2 specimens
originally entered as "Eretmocrinus cassedayanus?"
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859
28 specimens
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862
25 specimens
Abatocrinus grandis (Lyon and Casseday 1859)
4 specimens
Macrocrinus strotobasilaris Ausich and Lane 1982
24 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus americanus
8 specimens
Dorycrinus gouldi
2 specimens
Blastoidea - Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Granatocrinus ? granulosus (Meek and Worthen 1865)
4 specimens
misspelling Poroblastus granulosus
originally entered as "Grantocrinus granulosus?"
Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Palaeasteridae
Neopalaeaster ? crawfordsvillensis (Miller 1880)
1 specimen
originally entered as "Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis?"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Monroe
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 86.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.7° South, 33.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous
*Epoch:Visean
*International age/stage:Chadian *Local age/stage:Keokuk
Key time interval:Osagean
Age range of interval:353.80000 - 342.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Edwardsville
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dunes,grading lithified grainstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: This is a carbonate bank located on a subaqueous delta platform. Siltstone surrounds the bank and can be found interspersed within the bank itself.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments: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.
Metadata
Also known as:Skeletal carbonate bank facies; monobathrid-disparid community; Allens Creek, float, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., IN
Database number:2455
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:A. Webber
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-05 09:05:59 Last modified:2023-06-28 18:41:13
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-05 09:05:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55. 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]