Kearsarge section, bed 14 (12 feet below the quartzite layer) of Stauffer 1930 (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (36.8° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 74.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vaughn Gulch Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, gray, blue limestone

• Limestone, dark bluish, fairly massive, fossiliferous.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. R. Stauffer; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. R. Stauffer. 1930. The Devonian of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 19(4):81-118 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 229259: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 24.02.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
"crinoid stems"
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer ? varicosa" = Spirifera varicosa
"Spirifer ? varicosa" = Spirifera varicosa Hall 1857
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Diphyphyllum sp.
Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
"Acervularia davidsoni" = Hexagonaria davidsoni
"Acervularia davidsoni" = Hexagonaria davidsoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Chonophyllum magnificum
Chonophyllum magnificum Billings 1860 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum cf. aequiseptatum
Cyathophyllum cf. aequiseptatum Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum sp.
Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp.
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp., Favosites hemispherica, Favosites cf. radiciformis
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites hemispherica Troost 1840 tabulate coral
Favosites cf. radiciformis Rominger 1876 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp.
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia sphaeroidalis
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge