USGS 21941-PC, Funeral Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as USGS 21942-PC, USGS 21943-PC, USGS 21944-PC, USGS 21945-PC, USGS 21946-PC JFM64317A6, JFM64317A5, JFM64317A4, JFM64317A3, JFM64317A2, JFM64317A1

Where: Inyo County, California (36.3° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 53.5° W)

When: t2 Member (Tin Mountain Formation), Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Tin Mountain Limestone, 90-95 ft above base, in measured section across hill 2997, southeast end of Funeral Mountains.

Environment/lithology: gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Unit t2 of the Tin Mountain Limestone, about 75 feet thick, is prominent in a dark cliff above the rubbly slope that generally conceals unit t1 and below a light-gray band in unit t3 (fig. 7). Limestone that constitutes unit t2 is medium dark gray, weathers medium gray, and is varied in texture. Near the lower boundary, which is gradational and poorly defined, beds are thin. Elongate chert nodules, 1 inch or less thick, are sparse in a 12-foot interval 30 feet above 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 225982: 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
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora cf. aculeata, Syringopora aff. surcularia
Syringopora cf. aculeata Girty 1899 tabulate coral
Syringopora aff. surcularia Girty 1899 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
"horn corals"
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
Homalophyllites sp.
Homalophyllites sp. Easton 1944 horn coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Zaphrentites sp.
Zaphrentites sp. Hudson 1941 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia sp.
Caninia sp. Michelin 1840 horn coral
 Stauriida - Uraliniidae
Vesiculophyllum sp.
Vesiculophyllum sp. Easton 1944 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Rylstonia sp.
Rylstonia sp. Hudson and Platt 1927 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Dimegelasmidae
Dimegelasma sp.
Dimegelasma sp. Cooper 1942
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida -
"Ligonodina sp." = Oulodus
"Ligonodina sp." = Oulodus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Siphonodella cooperi, Siphonodella obsoleta, Polygnathus inornatus
Foraminifera
  -
Latiendothyra parakosvensis
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
Palaeospiroplectammina aff. parva
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Tuberitina sp.
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia sp.
 Fusulinina - Tournayellidae
Septaglomospiranella primaeva
Septaglomospiranella primaeva
aslo including ssp. Septaglomospiranella primaeva noda