D-5726 - South-facing road cut (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bragdon Formation, Late/Upper Mississippian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous mudstone

• Intermittently wave-agitated environments
• Thin- bedded calcilutite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1974. Carboniferous Brachiopods from Northern California. Journal of Paleontology 48(2):304-325 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143606: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 25.04.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Blastozoa indet.
Blastozoa indet. Sprinkle 1973
"crinozoa spp."
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Euconospira sp.
Euconospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Neilsonia sp.
Neilsonia sp. Thomas 1940 snail
 Murchisoniina -
Subulitoidea indet.
Subulitoidea indet. Lindström 1884 snail
"subulltacean sp. A"
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Krotovia "sp. A", "? Alifera sp." = Alitaria
Krotovia "sp. A" Fredericks 1928
sp. A
"? Alifera sp." = Alitaria Cooper and Muir-Wood 1967
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetes californicus
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Dorsoscyphus johnsoni
Dorsoscyphus johnsoni Watkins 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida -
Spiriferinida indet.
Spiriferinida indet. Ivanova 1972
"spiriferinid sp. B"
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferoidea indet.
Spiriferoidea indet.
"spiriferacean sp. D"
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
? Unispirifer sp.
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp.
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyrididae indet.
Notothyrididae indet. Licharew 1960
"notothyridld"
 Rhynchonellida -
Stenoscismatoidea indet.
Stenoscismatoidea indet. Oehlert 1887
"stenoscismatacean sp. A"
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida -
Rhabdomesida indet.
Rhabdomesida indet. Vine 1883
"rhabdomesid"
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Paladin bairdensis
Paladin bairdensis Wheeler 1937 trilobite