ammonites
Roaring Creek #1 Mine (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Roaring Creek

Where: Parke County, Indiana (39.0° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 23.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Block Coal Member (Brazil Formation), Pennsylvanian (318.1 - 298.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; coal

• the Upper Block Coal and the associated cuticular coal-shale formed in an upper delta plain setting that was influenced by nearby fluvial channels. (p.636)
• The clastic content of the cuticular coal is very high (11-50%) and the deposit has a distinct shalet cleavage

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UW

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. DiMichele, M. O. Rischbieter, D. L. Eggert and R. A. Gastaldo. 1984. Stem and leaf cuticle of Karinopteris: Source of cuticles from the Indiana "Paper" Coal. American Journal of Botany 71(5):626-637 [H. Sims/A. McGowan/J. Cassara] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32910: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Alistair McGowan on 18.07.2003