USGS 5441-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Sando et al. Cherokee Spring Loc.1

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 36.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Neokoninckophyllum hamatilus zone, Horseshoe Member (Amsden Formation), Morrowan (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, red, silty, sandy, calcareous shale and gypsiferous, shelly/skeletal limestone

• horseshoe: predominantly fissile, platy or blocky siltstone, shale, and mudstone. weathers bright red to grayish red or purple. thin beds and lenses of platy, white to red, fine grained, commonly calcareous quartz sandstone occur sporadically throughout member. thin beds of silty, sandy, or argillaceous limestone are rare in central wy, significant proportion in western wy. dolomite is a rare constituent. limestone beds are either fine grained and unfossiliferous or fine to medium grained and contain a shelly fauna. anhydrite and gypsum present at several localities. represents offshore marine facies of the transgressing amsden sea.

Reposited in the USGS

• "Collected by A.J. Collier, 1924 (?)"

Primary reference: W. J. Sando, M., J.r. Gordon, and J. T. Dutro. 1975. Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 848A:1-83 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5672: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.11.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Asphaltina
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Asphaltina sp. Mamet 1972
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Neokoninckophyllidae
Calcisphaera
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Calcisphaera sp. Williamson 1880
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) aff. plummeri" = Euomphalus plummeri
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) aff. plummeri" = Euomphalus plummeri Knight 1934 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten spp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia terminalis Hall 1852 clam
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906