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Biostratigraphic Analysis of Columbus Limestone

Period

Formation

Member

Stauffer
Zone

Biostratigraphic Zone

Mississippian Bedford Shale
Disconformity
Upper Devonian Ohio shaleDark shale700 ft Fossils very scarce
Middle Devonian Olentangy Shale
Light shale
30 feet
Fossils very scarce, found mostly in  nodular limestone
Delaware Formation
Impure limestone
36 feet
M 5th bone bed on top
4th bone bed near bottom
L 3rd bone bed
Hadrophyllum dorbignyi Zone
K Grammysia biscucota Zone
J Tentaculites scalariformis Zone   also crinoid lens
I Martinopsis maia Zone
Columbus Limestone
Normal limestone
105 feet
Delhi Member
(Klondike)
H 2nd bone bed on top
Nucleocrinus verneulli Zone
1st bone bed near bottom
G Goldringia cyclops Zone
(Cephalopod zone)
F Brevispirifer gregorlus Zone
E Spirifer macrothyris Zone
Eversole Member D Laevidentalhum martinei Zone
(Gastropod zone)
Bellpoint Member C Coral Zone
B Fossil scarce, poorly preserved
A Conglomerate
Disconformity
Silurian Monroe Formation
Biostratographic analysis of Columbus region, Devonian series

 

Phacops rana, Erie County, NY, Devonian Trilobite
Harpidella christi, Shelby County IN, Silurian trilobite
Dasciocrinus sp., Alabama, Mississippian crinoid

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