Locality 5 of 17, Beech Creek Limestone, Greene Co., IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Greene County, Indiana (39.1° N, 86.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 23.9° S, 39.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beech Creek Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• some workers consider the Beech Creek to be a member of the Paint Creek Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous limestone

• the lower part of the beech creek is characteristically gun metal blue, dense, hard limestone that weathers to smooth, lighter-gray surfaces; contains many specimens of undetermined species of planispiral or low-spired gastropods which are mostly recrystallized. the middle and upper beds of the formatin consist of light-gray, crystalline limestone that weathers to a characteristic hackly appearance; in some localities, the upper few feet are somewhat argillaceous, and the surface weathers yellowish-brown.

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: A. C. Brookley, Jr. 1955. The Paleontology of the Beech Creek (Chester) Limestone of Indiana. 1-105 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6882: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.04.2000

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia contracta
Martinia contracta Meek and Worthen 1866
abundant
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi
"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
common
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus pileiformis
 Productida - Productellidae
Productus fasiculatus
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites pyramidatus