USGS Paleozoic loc. M1097, Funeral Mountains (Silurian of the United States)

Also known as JFM56120A

Where: Inyo County, California (36.4° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° S, 71.2° W)

When: Hidden Valley Dolomite Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• lower member, unit h3

Environment/lithology: nodular, cherty/siliceous dolomite

• The unit consists of medium-to dark-gray dolomite that contains nodular chert.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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

Collected by J. F. McAllister in 1956; 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 225990: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Rhipidium sp.
Rhipidium sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
cf. Cymbidium sp., Conchidium sp.
cf. Cymbidium sp. Kirk 1926
"pentameroid resemling Cymbidium"
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Tonkinaria cf. simpsoni
Tonkinaria cf. simpsoni Merriam 1973 horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Brachyelasma "sp. B"
Brachyelasma "sp. B" Lang et al. 1940 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
? Syringaxon sp.
? Syringaxon sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Favositida indet.
Favositida indet. Wedekind 1937 tabulate coral
"favositids"
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp.
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral