Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio
and Surrounding Areas
Tabulate Coral Faunal List
Names in Current Use* (1997)
Note: Links on fossil names will take you to a page with photos and data on the Indiana Memory Project web site or photo albums if specimens are not available for the IMP from park collections. Some photos are from William J. Davis' 1885 photographic monograph Kentucky Fossil Corals, with permission of the Kentucky Geological Survey.
Abbreviations: CZ = coral zone; JL = Jeffersonville Limestone, above coral zone; S= Speed Limestone, North Vernon Formation, B = Beechwood Member, North Vernon Formation
North Vernon Formation = Sellersburg Limestone
CZ JL S B
Alveolites asperus (Rominger) X
Alveolites constans Davis X
Alveolites expatiatus (Rominger) X
Alveolites goldfussi Billings X
Alveolites minimus Davis Photo 2 X
Alveolites mordax Davis X
Alveolites squamosus Billings X
Alveolites sp. X
Alveolites winchellana (Miller) Photo 2 X
Antholites speciosus Davis X
Aulocystis auloporoidea (Davis) X
Aulocystis fascicularis (Davis) X X
Aulocystis frutectosa (Davis) X
Aulocystis (?) incrustans (Davis) X X
Aulocystis jacksoni (Grabau) X
Aulocystis nobilis (Billings) X
Aulocystis (?) procumbens Davis X
Aulocystis sp. X
Aulocystis transitorius Stumm X X
Aulopora culmula Davis X
Aulopora edithana Davis X
Aulopora tubiporoides (Yandell & Shumard) Photo 2 X
Bractea arbor (Davis) X
Bractea frutex (Davis) X
Bractea impedita (Davis) X
Chonostegites clappi Edwards & Haime X
Chonostegites tabulatus (Edwards & Haime) X X
Cladopora acupicta Davis Photo 2 X X
Cladopora bifurca Davis X
Cladopora(?) gracilis Davis X
Cladopora gulielmi Davis X
Cladopora(?) imbricata Rominger X
Cladopora labiosa (Billings) Photo 2 Photo 3 X
[often confused with Alveolites winchellana (Miller)]
Cladopora(?) robusta Rominger X
Favosites (Emmonsia)** amplissimus (Davis) Photo 2 X
Favosites (Emmonsia) arbuscula (Hall) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) baculus (Davis) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) convexus (Davis) X
Favosites (Emmonsia cymosus (Davis) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) emmonsi (Rominger) Photo 2 X X Photo 3
Favosites (Emmonsia) eximius (Davis) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) epidermatus (Rominger) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) ocellatus (Davis) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) radiciformis (Rominger) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) ramosa (Rominger) X
Favosites (Emmonsia) sp. X
Favosites (Emmonsia) sp. nov. X
Favosites (EmmonsiaI) tuberosus (Rominger) X X
Favosites argus Hall X?
Favosites biloculi Hall X X?
Favosites clausus Rominger X
Favosites clelandi Davis X
Favosites goldfussi d'Orbigny X
Favosites hamiltoniae Hall X
Favosites hemisphericus var. cornutiformis Stewart X
Favosites mundus Davis X
Favosites patellatus Stumm X
Favosites pirum Davis Photo 2 X
Favosites placentus Rominger X
Favosites proximatus Stumm X
Favosites quercus Davis Photo 2 X
Favosites ramulosus Davis X X
Favosites rotundituba Davis X
Favosites turbinatus Billings X X
Lecfedites canadensis (Billings) X
Platyaxum foliatum Davis X
Platyaxum frondosum (Nicholson) X
Platyaxum orthosoleniskum (Werner) X
Platyaxum undosum Davis X
Pleurodictyum cornu Stumm X
Pleurodictyum cylindricum (Michelin) X X
Pleurodictyum insigne (Rominger) X
Pleurodictyum maximum (Troost) X
Pleurodictyum (Procteria) michelinoides (Davis) Photo 2 X
Pleurodictyum (Procteria) papillosa (Davis) X
Pleurodictyum planum (Davis) X
Pleurodictyum (Procteria) spiculata (Greene) X
Pleurodictyum wardi Greene X
Romingeria commutata Beecher X
Romingeria fasciculata Davis Photo 2 Photo 3 X
Romingeria umbellifera (Billings) X
Romingeria uva Davis X
Striatopora(?) alba Davis X
Striatopora bellistriata Greene Photo 2 X X
Striatopora cavernosa Rominger X
Striatopora sp. X
Syringopora hisingeri Billings X X
Syringopora perelegans Billings Photo 2 X
Thamnopora distans (Nicholson) X
Thamnopora limitaris (Rominger) Photo 2 X X
Thamnoptychia alternans (Rominger) X
Thamnoptychia tuberculata (Stumm) X
Thamnoptychia vermiculosa (Lesueur) X
* Names change as new studies of faunas are completed.
** According to William A. Oliver, Jr.
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