Univ. Missouri Collections 3, unspecified numbers (UM - Columbia) (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Also known as Sando et al. Cherry Creek Loc.37

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.6° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 39.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anthracospirifer welleri - shawi zone, Horseshoe Member (Amsden Formation), Chesterian to Chesterian (335.5 - 321.8 Ma)

• Float from lower part of Amsden Fm. "Late Mississippian (Chesterian)."

• 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.

Collection methods: "Fossils lised by Morey, 1935, p.474-482."

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 5710: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.11.1999

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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? Nuferella puncta
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Sansabellidae
Sansabella reversa
 Palaeocopida - Serenididae
? Sargentina amsdenensis
 Palaeocopida - Aechminellidae
"Balantoides quadrilobatus" = Aechminella
"Balantoides quadrilobatus" = Aechminella ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Ectodemites warei
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites robertsi, Glyptopleura multicostata
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
? Acratia disjuncta
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia contracta, Bairdia delicata, Bairdia nasuta
Bairdia nasuta ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
? Pseudobythocypris amsdenensis
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia ornata