Honaker Trail Formation, Moab, Utah, Unit 11D (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)

• 2 feet, 4 inches thick; "Late Pennsylvanian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone

• "open marine"
• Lithoclastic (quartz) micritic skeletal limestone

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 39989: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia torquia Owen 1852 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllidium profundum Milne-Edward and Haime 1851 horn coral
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Catacrinidae
Delocrinus sp. Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris M'Coy 1844 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Pharkidonotus percarinatus Conrad 1842 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Productellidae
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873
 Productida - Productidae
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
? Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
"Derbyia bennetti" = Derbya bennetti Hall and Clarke 1892
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer kansasensis, "Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari
"Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari King 1933
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella tetrahedra Dunbar and Condra 1932
Wellerella osagensis Shumard and Swallow 1858
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Massive and massive branching
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Ditomopyge sp. Newell 1931 trilobite