USGS loc. 27476-PC, Ship Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as field locality S79SM-1

Where: San Bernardino County, California (34.5° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 45.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: 1 Member (Bird Spring Formation), Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomite and silty limestone

• Mostly dolomite; minor silty limestone and dolomite; limestone in basal 2 m contains phosphatic clasts. Conodonts in a fossiliferous limestone marker bed ~20 m above base (S79SM-1 and 2) indicate an Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) age

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Paul Stone and K.A. Howard in 1979; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Stone, C. H. Stevens, K. A. Howard and T. D. Hoisch. 2013. Stratigraphy and paleogeographic significance of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Bird Spring Formation in the Ship Mountains, southeastern California. United States Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5109:1-40 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222069: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.09.2021, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodontophorida
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Declinognathodus noduliferus
Declinognathodus noduliferus Ellison and Graves 1941
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Neognathodus bassleri, Idiognathodus delicatus, Idiognathodus convexus
 Ozarkodinida - Cavusgnathidae
Adetognathus cf. spathus
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina sp.
Cavellina sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
? Rhombopora sp.
? Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina cf. milleri
Cleiothyridina cf. milleri Savage et al. 1978
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer cf. curvilateralis
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
? Neochonetes sp.
? Neochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962