ammonites
Eby Pit upper bench coal site 8-4 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as UI 28406-28414

Where: Warrick County County, Indiana (38.2° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 24.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Springfield Coal Member (Carbondale Formation), Desmoinesian (313.8 - 305.9 Ma)

• Eby Pit of the Peabody Coal Company Lynnville Mine.

•Equivalent to late Westphalian D.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal ball and shale

• Coal balls; The upper bench of the Springfield Coal, continuous wiht the main coal bed at the edge of the split, is present over most of the Folsomville Member and varies widely in character. In some sections it appears as a normally brightly-banded bituminous coal. In other areas, it appears as a clastic-rich coal or organic shale and in some cases, the clastic-rich layers may be intermixed iwth more coaly layers or grade upward into a normally bright-banded coal.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. L. Phillips and W.A. DiMichele. 1998. A Transect through a Clastic-swamp to Peat-swamp Ecotene in the Springfield Coal, Middle Pennsylvanian Age of Indiana, USA. Palaios 13:113-128 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11058: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 09.07.2001, edited by Summer Ostrowski