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
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 | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Caninia torquia Owen 1852 horn coral | |
Lophophyllidium profundum Milne-Edward and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Delocrinus sp. Miller and Gurley 1890 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris M'Coy 1844 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Pharkidonotus percarinatus Conrad 1842 snail | |
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873 | |
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Echinoconchus semipunctatus, "Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
? Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884
"Derbyia bennetti" = Derbya bennetti Hall and Clarke 1892
Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855 | |
Neospirifer kansasensis, "Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari
Neospirifer kansasensis Swallow 1866
"Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa
"Phricodothyris perplexa" = Condrathyris perplexa McChesney 1859 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Wellerella tetrahedra Dunbar and Condra 1932
Wellerella osagensis Shumard and Swallow 1858 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Trilobita | |
Ditomopyge sp. Newell 1931 trilobite |