Fenestellidae community, Floyd Shale (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Georgia (34.6° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Floyd Shale Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• "Upper Miss."

Environment/lithology: prodelta; calcareous shale

• "slightly calcareous shale, siltstone. embayment, distal prodelta, or mudbank. BA4"

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 574: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Broadhead, 1976. Abundance categories: D= 75%, A= 10-30%, C= 2-10%, R< 2%"
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Bivalvia
 Autobranchia -
Pterioida indet.
Pterioida indet. Newell 1965 clam
 Nuculoida -
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida Dall 1889 clam
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestellidae indet.
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850
dom. Fenestella, Archimedes
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet.
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferidina indet.
Spiriferidina indet. Waagen 1883
Spiriferidina
 Athyridida -
"Athyridina indet." = Athyrididina
"Athyridina indet." = Athyrididina Boucot et al. 1964
Athyridina
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Chonetidina indet., Productidina indet.
Chonetidina indet. Muir-Wood 1955
Chonetidina
Productidina indet. Waagen 1883
Productidina
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily