Little Flat Canyon, Lodgepole Limestone (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Caribou County, Idaho (42.8° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 47.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Woodhurst Member (Lodgepole Limestone Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Upper Kinderhookian to Lower Osegean is equivalent to Tournaisian according to Heckel and Clayton, 2006 (Geologica Acta 4:403-407)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Primary reference: A. M. Christensen. 1999. Brachiopod Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Mississippian Lodgepole Limestone in Southeastern Idaho. In S. S. Hughes, G. D. Thackray (eds.), Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History 57-67 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141464: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 27.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae