Sataquin Pole Canyon (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Sataquin Pole Canyon crinoid fauna

Where: Utah County County, Utah (38.1° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° S, 51.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fitchville Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lime mudstone and lithified shale

• Crinoid-bearing strata are medium-bedded (rarely thin-bedded) carbonate mudstones and wackestones with thin shale interbeds and rare very thin-bedded tabular and lenticular chert. Other beds are packstones to grainstones with crossbedding.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich. 2003. Lower Mississipian crinoid (Echinodermata) fauna from Utah County, Utah. Journal of Paleontology 77(1):139-145 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42028: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 22.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet.
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Large
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Spines
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Aphelecrinidae
Paracosmetocrinus lundi n. sp.
Paracosmetocrinus lundi n. sp. Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Nunnacrinus olsoni n. sp.
Nunnacrinus olsoni n. sp. Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinites sp.
Platycrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Solitary
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet.
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus sp.
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral