D-5740 - Limestone cropping out through brush (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 42.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hirz Mountain Limestone Member (Baird Formation), Late/Upper Pennsylvanian to Late/Upper Pennsylvanian (307.0 - 273.0 Ma)

• Late Pennsylvanian to Early Permian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

• Micritic limestone

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 143616: 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
  -
Strophalosiid indet.
Demospongiae
 Lithistida -
Lithistida indet.
Lithistida indet. Schmidt 1870 demosponge
"lithistid sponge"
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
includes "solitary tetracoral A" and "colonial tetracoral"
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet.
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
"strophomenid sp. B"
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes aff. pseudoliratus
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Diplanus stanleyi
Diplanus stanleyi Watkins 1974
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella "sp. A"
 Productida -
Productoidea indet.
Productoidea indet. Gray 1840
"productacean"
 Productida - Productidae
"Dictyoclostidae indet." = Dictyoclostinae
"Dictyoclostidae indet." = Dictyoclostinae Stehli 1954
"dictyoclostid sp. C"
 Productida - Productellidae
Lissomarginifera shastensis
 Productida - Overtoniidae
Overtoniidae indet.
Overtoniidae indet. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
"overtoniid"
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchidae indet.
Echinoconchidae indet. Stehli 1954
"echinoconchid"
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Aulostegidae indet.
Aulostegidae indet. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
"aulostegid"
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet.
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883
"terebratulida sp. A"
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasmatinae indet.
Dielasmatinae indet. Schuchert 1913
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Cranaena sp.
Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp.
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Athyridida -
Retzioidea indet.
Retzioidea indet. Waagen 1883
"retziacean"
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia compressa
Hustedia compressa Cooper and Grant 1976
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferida indet.
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883
"spiriferida (1 sp.)"
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
Choristitella sp.
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp., Orthotichia nawtawaketensis
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"encrusting type 1"
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Acanthocladiidae indet.
Acanthocladiidae indet. Zittel 1880
"acanthocladiid"
 Rhabdomesida -
Rhabdomesida indet.
Rhabdomesida indet. Vine 1883
"rhabdomesid"
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Fenestellida indet.
Fenestellida indet.
includes "fenestellid type 1", "fenestellid type 2", and "fenestellid type 3"
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis "sp. A"
Spirorbis "sp. A" Daudin 1800
Bivalvia
 Ostreiformii -
Pectinida indet.
Pectinida indet. Gray 1854 scallop
"pectinacean (?)"
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
unclassified
  -
Blastozoa indet.
Blastozoa indet. Sprinkle 1973
Foraminifera
  -
Foraminifera indet.
Foraminifera indet. foram
"other foraminifers"