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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Asphaltina | |
Asphaltina sp. Mamet 1972 | |
Anthozoa | |
Neokoninckophyllum hamatilis horn coral | |
Calcisphaera | |
Calcisphaera sp. Williamson 1880 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) aff. plummeri" = Euomphalus plummeri
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) aff. plummeri" = Euomphalus plummeri Knight 1934 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten spp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Wilkingia terminalis Hall 1852 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Anthracospirifer occiduus Sadlick 1960 | |
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906 |