Also known as Sando et al. Moffat Trail Loc.75
Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (42.9° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 41.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Caninia zone, Moffat Trail Member (Amsden Formation), Chesterian to Chesterian (339.4 - 318.1 Ma)
• Limestone 210 ft above base of Amsden Fm. "Late Mississippian (Chesterian)."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, dolomitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow limestone
Reposited in the USGS
• "Collected by J.T. Dutro, Jr. and Mario Suarez, 1966."
Primary reference: W. J. Sando, M., J.r. Gordon, and J. T. Dutro. 1975. Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 848A:1-83 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5738: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.11.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Endothyra ex gr. bowmani Phillips 1846 | |
Anthozoa | |
? Turbinatocaninia sp. Dobrolyubova 1970 horn coral | |
? Multithecopora amsdenensis tabulate coral | |
Calcisphaera | |
Calcisphaera sp. Williamson 1880 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Bryozoa | |
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Conodonta | |
Cavusgnathus unicornis conodont | |
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Hibbardella sp. Bassler 1925 conodont |