Jeffersonville Limestone (Falls of Ohio area) (Devonian of the United States)
Where: Clark County, Indiana (38.5° N, 85.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 34.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Jeffersonville Limestone Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks
• medium-grained buff limestone; the basal 9-10 ft is known as the coral zone and is a biostrome composed of closely packed rugose and tabulate corals
Primary reference: E. C. Stumm. 1964. Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio. The Geological Society of America Memoir 93:1-184 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5702: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.11.1999
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