USGS 14025-PC (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Also known as Sando et al. Little Popo Agie Canyon Loc.39

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.7° 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.

Reposited in the USGS

• "Collected by L.G. Henbest, 1948."

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 5712: 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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Antracospirifer welleri
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae
Pugnoides ? quinqueplecis
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sigma
Composita sigma Gordon 1975
 Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria sulcata
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Carlinia amsdeniana
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Barytichisma amsdenense