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 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhipidomella missouriensis Swallow 1860 | |
Schizophoria cf. poststriatula Weller 1914 | |