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)
• 9 inches thick; "Late Pennsylvanian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous dolomite and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
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 39986: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Strophomenata | |
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer kansasensis Swallow 1866 | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 |