D-5727 - 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)

• Four feet stratigraphically above D-5726, in same roadcut.

• 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 143607: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 25.04.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
  -
Foraminifera indet. foram
"foraminifers spp."
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
"solitary tetracoral"
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea -
? Pleurotomarioidea indet. Swainson 1840 snail
"pleuritomariacean(?) sp. B"
 Murchisoniina -
Subulitoidea indet. Lindström 1884 snail
"subulitacean sp. A"
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Neilsonia sp. Thomas 1940 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae indet. White 1877 snail
"euomphalid"
Scaphopoda
  -
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell
"scaphopod sp. A"
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
"other pelecypods"
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus "sp. A" King 1844 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus "sp.A" Chavan 1954 clam
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten sp. Girty 1903 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium "sp.A" Bronn 1835
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
"other brachiopods"
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferoidea indet.
"spiriferacean sp. D"
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris "sp. A" George 1931
 Spiriferida - Verneuiliidae
Verneuiliidae indet. Schuchert 1929
"Verneuilia-like brachiopod"
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyrididae indet. Fredericks 1924
"brachythyridid"
 Spiriferida -
? Reticularioidea indet. Waagen 1883
"reticulariacean(?) sp. B"
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Notothyrididae indet. Licharew 1960
"notothyridld"
 Rhynchonellida -
Stenoscismatoidea indet. Oehlert 1887
"stenoscisnatacean sp.A"
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Dorsoscyphus johnsoni Watkins 1974
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Krotovia "sp. A" Fredericks 1928
"? Alifera sp." = Alitaria Cooper and Muir-Wood 1967
 Productida - Productidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Sulcoreteporidae indet. Bassler 1935
"sulcoreteporld type 1"
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Acanthocladiidae indet. Zittel 1880
"acanthocladiid"
 Rhabdomesida -
Rhabdomesida indet. Vine 1883
"rhabdomesid"
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Fenestellida indet.
includes both "fenestellid type 1" and "fenestellid type 2"
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Paladin bairdensis Wheeler 1937 trilobite
unclassified
  -
Blastozoa indet. Sprinkle 1973
"crinozoa spp."