Gardner Canyon, Great Blue Limestone (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Idaho-Utah (42.2° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 45.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Great Blue Limestone Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• "Upper Meramec and Lower Chester"

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; cherty/siliceous limestone and shale

• "med to massive bedded ls, silty, some chert, some beds of sh and sltst. open shelf. geosynclinal, BA4"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. S. Beus. 1968. Paleozoic Stratigraphy of Samaria Mountain, Idaho-Utah. AAPG Bulletin 52:782-808 [M. Uhen/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 576: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "S.S. Beus, 1968. Paleozoic strat of Samaria Mtn, Idaho-Utah. AAPG Bull. 52:782-808"
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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp.
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Penniretepora sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia sp.
Martinia sp. M'Coy 1844
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer sp., Spirifer sp.
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sp.
Hustedia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp.
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Girtyella sp.
Girtyella sp. Weller 1911
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp.
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Flexaria sp.
 Productida - Productellidae
? Protoniella sp., Diaphragmus sp.
? Protoniella sp.
originally entered as "? Protoniella sp."
Diaphragmus sp. Girty 1910
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetes sp.
Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop