Cobblestone Creek, 52 m, Banff Formation, Western Alberta: Tournaisian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Spinocarinifera (Seminucella) parva
39 specimens
Spinocarinifera (Spinocarinifera) copiosa
33 specimens
Setigerites jasperensis
24 specimens
Tomiproductus gallatinensis
4 specimens
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Avonia banffensis
1 specimen
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Pustula morrocreekensis
1 specimen
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Ovatia prolata
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Calvustrigis rutherfordi
70 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
? Podtsheremia albertensis
21 specimens
Spirifer esplanadensis
13 specimens
Unispirifer greenockensis
1 specimen
Unispirifer minnewankensis
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris cf. hannibalensis
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina lata
27 specimens
Composita athabaskensis
35 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria osagensis
13 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Hemiplethorhynchus allani
5 specimens
Macropotamorhynchus insolitus
18 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Cranaena cf. texana Carter 1967
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Beecheria chouteauensis (Weller 1914)
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 53.1° North, 118.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.6° North, 41.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
Key time interval:Tournaisian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Banff
Local section:Cobblestone Creek Local bed:52 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper Banff Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67248
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-16 04:06:15 Last modified:2006-11-16 06:06:15
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-16 04:06:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19211. J. L. Carter. 1987. Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Banff Formation of Western Alberta. Bulletin Geological Survey of Canada 378:1-183 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]