Fauna from the Camp Run Member, New Albany Shale (Upper Devonian) of Indiana: Kinderhookian, Indiana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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| several small forms | ||||||||||
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingula spatulata
Vanuxem 1842
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Conodonta
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Conodonta indet.
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Indiana |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 85.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.0° South, 33.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Kinderhookian |
| Key time interval: | Kinderhookian | Zone: | To III |
| Age range of interval: | 358.90000 - 351.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | New Albany Shale | Member: | Camp Run | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The faunal zone "To III" refers to the German Upper Devonian and is based on conodonts and ammonites. This member includes the lower part of the upper part of the Blackiston Formation of Campbell. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,pyritic,black,green mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: interbedded greenish-gray or olive gray mudstone or shale and dark brownish-black carbon-rich pyritic fissile shale; thickness ranges from 14 to 18 feet; greenish-gray shale or mudstone are 1 inch to 1.1 feet thick, separated by dark shale beds 0.4 to 4.5 feet thick; upper part consists of 22 to 25 greenish-gray shale beds 0.1 to 0.4 feet thick interbedded with dark shale 0.4 to 1.5 feet thick; greenish-gray shale is less resistant to weathering and imparts a washboard appearance to old vertical exposures; thin greenish-gray shale beds are fissile; thicker greenish-gray beds are non-fissile; dolomite concretions as large as 1 foot thick and 2 feet in diameter are scattered through the dark shale | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: The New Albany Shale in Indiana was deposited in a shallow marine environment under reducing conditions that were caused by lack of water circulation. | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: faunal data includes information compiled from Kindle, 1901; Huddle, 1933; and Campbell, 1946 in addition to field collections. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:In addition to the fauna described, burrows and trails were found in this member. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 6976 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | D. Carlson |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-04-18 12:59:11 | Last modified: | 2004-03-13 22:45:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-04-18 12:59:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 434. | 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] |