Inexact locality near Crawfordsville, unknown formation, Montgomery Co., Indiana: Chadian - Arundian, Indiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Blastoidea
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825
a blastoid
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Abatocrinus grandis (Lyon and Casseday 1859)
Dizygocrinus indianaensis
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Staphylocrinidae
Abrotocrinus unicus
Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Scytalocrinus cf. disparilis
originally entered as "Scytalocrinus cf. disparilis"
Histocrinus coreyi
Crinoidea - Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Decadocrinus depressus
Crinoidea - Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Taxocrinus colletti
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
an echinoid
Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Palaeasteridae
Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis (Miller 1880)
1 specimen
Type specimen
Asteroidea - Cryptozonia - Schoenasteridae
Schoenaster fimbriatus (Meek and Worthen 1860)
Ophiuroidea - Phrynophiurida - Onychasteridae
Onychaster flexilis Meek and Worthen 1868
Ophiuroidea
Lumectaster howelli Jell 1997
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Aganasteridae
Aganaster gregarius (Meek and Worthen 1869)
Ophiuroidea - Cheiropterasteridae
Vandelooaster plicatilis Jell 1997
Ophiuroidea
Calyptactis demissus (Miller 1891)
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850
almost ubiquitous fenestellid bryozoans
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
occasional brachiopods
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Indiana County:Montgomery
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 86.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.2° South, 32.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
Key time interval: Chadian - Arundian
Age range of interval: 346.7 - 340.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Bed of origin" not known.
JA: the Crawfordsville beds are late Osagean = Chadian or Arundian, see for example Lane et al. 1973
Lithology and environment
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: "The environment high on the Borden delta platform (Borden Group)...was extremely quiet water on a carbonate bank with inflow of silt-sized clastics. The echinoderms were localized around bioherms with intervening silt substrates usually unpopulated."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection was made in 1867 by Christian van de Loo for James Hall.
Metadata
Database number:699
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-02-25 10:51:32 Last modified:2007-06-07 22:04:28
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-25 10:51:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

20. P. Jell. 1997. Early Carboniferous ophiuroids from Crawfordsville, Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 71(2):306-316 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]