Also known as Sando et al. Rawlins US 287 Loc.6
Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 36.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mesolobus zone, Ranchester Member (Amsden Formation), Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, lenticular, concretionary, gray, yellow, sandy, cherty/siliceous dolomite and green, red shale
Reposited in the USGS
• "Collected by W.T. Lee, 1921. Fossils originally identified by G.H. Girty and listed in Lee, 1927, p.72; subsequently listed by Branson, 1939, p.1213 and Burk, 1954, p3."
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 5678: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.11.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854 | |
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
Mesolobus sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
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Linoproductus planiventralis Hoare 1960 | |
Calcisphaera | |
Calcisphaera laevis | |
Calcisphaera laevis Williamson 1880 |