Locality 13, Glen Dean Limestone, Crawford Co., IN: Pendleian, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Orthotetidae
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Orthotetes kaskaskiensis
(McChesney 1860)
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Linoproductidae
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Linoproductus pileiformis
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Echinoconchidae
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Productus cestriensis
Worthen 1860
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| synonym of Echinoconchus elegans | |||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
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Spirifer leidyi
Norwood and Pratten 1855
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| recombined as Anthracospirifer leidyi | |||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Martiniidae
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Martinia contracta
(Meek and Worthen 1866)
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Composita subquadrata
(Hall 1858)
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cranaenidae
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Girtyella indianensis
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana | County: | Crawford |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° North, 86.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.3° South, 26.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Serpukhovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 3 | *Epoch: | Middle Chesterian |
| Key time interval: | Pendleian | Zone: | Dibunophyllum |
| Age range of interval: | 330.90000 - 327.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Glen Dean Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: collection taken from the Lower Glen Dean Limestone [JA: entered as Chesterian; the Glen Dean is late Hombergian = Pendleian] | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pyritic,ooidal,shelly/skeletal cherty/siliceous grainstone |
| Lithology description: hard, tan or gray, crystalline limestone that occurs in fairly massive beds; some beds oolitic; all beds fragmental in appearance and quite fossiliferous; common minerals include: dolomite, chert, pyrite, limonite and hematite; | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: listed with locality information is identification as collection 102 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 6930 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-04-12 14:01:36 | Last modified: | 2009-08-18 10:08:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 435. | A. S. Horowitz. 1956. Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky. 1-449 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen] |