USGS 21933-PC, Funeral Mountains (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Also known as JFM64319A

Where: Inyo County, California (36.3° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 53.0° W)

When: t5 Member (Tin Mountain Formation), Osagean to Osagean (352.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• Tin Mountain Limestone, about 295-300 ft above base, about 250 ft north along strike from measured section across hill 2997, southeast end of Funeral Mountains.

Environment/lithology: gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Unit t5 at the top of the Tin Mountain Limestone is more uniform in composition and bedding than the underlying units but is variable in thickness. Limestone in the unit is commonly very fine grained and medium dark gray that becomes medium light gray through weathering. A few chert nodules mark a zone 5-10 feet thick about 50 feet from the base of the unit.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate, replaced with dolomite, replaced with silica

Collected by J. F. McAllister in 1964; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. F. McAllister. 1974. Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1386:1-35 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225974: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 09.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
"horn corals"
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp.
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949
"Rhynchonellid indet."
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Brachythyris cf. suborbicularis" = Spirifer suborbicularis
"Brachythyris cf. suborbicularis" = Spirifer suborbicularis Hall 1858
 Spiriferida - Imbrexiidae
Imbrexia sp.
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Productoidea indet.
Productoidea indet. Gray 1840
"Productoid indet"
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont