Honaker Trail Formation, Moab, Utah, Unit 5 (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Grand County, Utah (38.6° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 37.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Honaker Trail Formation, Kasimovian to Kasimovian (307.0 - 298.9 Ma)

• 40 foot thick interval; "Late Pennsylvanian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; burrowed, gray limestone and sandy dolomite

• "open marine"
• Limestone and dolomite: micritic and algal (biostromal), gray and green; flat bedded; cliff former; trace fossils. Strat section shows lower sandy dolomite, thick middle limestone, and thin upper dolomite.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

• Corals identified with acetate peels

Primary reference: R. A. Melton. 1972. Paleoecology and paleoenvironment of the upper Honaker Trail Formation near Moab, Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 19(2):45-88 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39983: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium profundum Milne-Edward and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia torquia Owen 1852 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana Dunbar and Condra 1932
Listed in text and appendix, but not faunal list table
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Branching, massive branching, and sheeting
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Spines
  - Archaeocidaridae
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris M'Coy 1844 sea urchin
Algae
 Algae -