{{Short description|Geologic formation in northern Arkansas}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Batesville Sandstone | image = | caption = | type = Formation | age = Mississippian | period = Mississippian | prilithology = Sandstone | otherlithology = Limestone | namedfor = Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Branner|first1=J.|title=Introduction|journal=Arkansas Geological Survey Annual Report 1888|date=1891|volume=4|pages=xiii}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Simonds|first1=F.|title=The geology of Washington County|journal=Arkansas Geological Survey Annual Report 1888|date=1891|volume=4|pages=26, 49–53}}</ref> | namedby = John Casper Branner | region = Arkansas | country = United States | coordinates = | unitof = | subunits = Hindsville Limestone Member | underlies = Fayetteville Shale | overlies = Ruddell Shale, Moorefield Formation | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = | map_caption = }}
The '''Batesville Sandstone''' is a geologic formation in northern Arkansas, United States, that dates to the Chesterian Series of the late Mississippian. The base of the Batesville Sandstone, named the Hindsville Limestone Member, unconformably lies on the Moorefield Formation.
==Paleofauna== ===Brachiopods=== *''Orthotetes'' :''O. batesvillensis''<ref name = HenryGordon1985>{{Cite journal|last1=Henry|first1=Thomas W.|last2=Gordon Jr.|first2=Mackenzie|date=1985|title=Chesterian Davidsoniacean and Orthotetacean brachiopods, Ozark region of Arkansas and Oklahoma|journal=Journal of Paleontology|volume=59|issue=1|pages=32–59}}</ref>
===Bryozoans=== *''Archimedes'' :''A. proutanus''<ref name="Horowitz">{{cite journal|last1=Horowitz|first1=Alan S.|title=Late Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian bryozoan faunas of Arkansas and Oklahoma: a review|journal=Oklahoma Geological Survey Guidebook|date=1977|volume=18|pages=101–105|url=http://ogs.ou.edu/docs/guidebooks/GB18.pdf|access-date=3 February 2018}}</ref> *''Batostomella'' :''B. parvula''<ref name = Horowitz/> *''Glyptopora'' :''G. michelinia''<ref name = Horowitz/> *''Leioclema''<ref name = Horowitz/> *''Polypora''<ref name = Horowitz/> *''Tabulipora'' :''T. miseri''<ref name = Horowitz/>
===Cephalopods=== *''Goniatites'' :''G. choctawensis''<ref name = Saunders>{{cite journal|last1=Saunders|first1=W. Bruce|last2=Manger|first2=Walter L.|last3=Gordon Jr.|first3=Mackenzie|title=Upper Mississippian and Lower and Middle Pennsylvanian ammonoid biostratigraphy of northern Arkansas|journal=Oklahoma Geological Survey Guidebook|date=1977|volume=18|pages=117–137|url=http://ogs.ou.edu/docs/guidebooks/GB18.pdf|access-date=1 February 2018}}</ref> :''G. granosus''<ref name = Saunders/> *''Lusitanites'' :''L. subcircularis''<ref name = Saunders/> *''Neoglyphioceras'' :''N. caneyanum''<ref name = Saunders/>
==See also== {{Portal|Earth sciences|United States|Paleontology}}
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Arkansas * Paleontology in Arkansas
==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org/|access-date= 17 December 2021|archive-date= 25 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home|url-status= dead}}
Category:Mississippian Arkansas Category:Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits Category:Sandstone formations of the United States Category:Limestone formations of the United States Category:Geologic formations of Arkansas
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