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)
• 1 feet, 8 inches thick; "Late Pennsylvanian"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous 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 39990: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2004
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 | |
Echinoidea | |
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris M'Coy 1844 sea urchin | |
Bryozoa | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana
"Dictyoclostus americanus" = Reticulatia americana Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer
"Chonetes granulifer" = Neochonetes granulifer Owen 1852 | |
? Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 |