Michelinia-Rugosa community, Floyd Shale (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Georgia (34.8° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.5° S, 33.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Floyd Shale Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)
• "Upper Miss."
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; ooidal carbonate
• "carb buildups on shelf. char. of carb bank facies. shallower than PSF communities. turbulent. BA3"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Broadhead. 1976. Depositional systems and marine benthic communities in the Floyd Shale, Upper Mississippian, northwest Georgia. Structure and classification of paleo-communities 263-278 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 572: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.01.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "Broadhead, 1976" Abundance catagories D= 75% specimens, A= 10-30%, C= 2-10%, R< 2%"
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| Echinoidea | |
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
| Blastoidea | |
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Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid | |
| Strophomenata | |
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| Rhynchonellata | |
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Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
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Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail gastropod - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."
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| Anthozoa | |
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Rugosa indet. horn coral | |