Sellers Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Raccoon Creek Group >>Caseyville Formation >>Sellers Limestone Bed
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Morrowan Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence
Authors
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
Name Origin
The Sellers Limestone Member of the Caseyville Formation (Wanless, 1939, p. 36, 101) is named for Sellers Landing, Hardin County.
Type Section
The type section is on the west bank of the Ohio River, at Sellers Landing (21, 11S-10E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 9).
Correlation
It is equivalent to part of the Drury Shale, but no limestone correlatives are known.
Extent and Thickness
The Sellers Limestone is known only at the type locality, where about 10 feet is exposed.
Description
Part of the limestone is sandy and coarse grained and contains a varied marine fauna, but most of the Sellers is composed of beds of very fine-grained, argillaceous limestone interbedded with gray shale.
Fossils
No fusulinids, ostracodes, or conodonts have been found in the Sellers.
Depositional Environment
It is a major marine deposit in a complex fluvial-deltaic sequence.
References
WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.
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