Bed 2, Ely Limestone, Skunk Springs (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as SP0I

Where: Millard County, Utah (39.3° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 40.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ely Limestone Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

• "packstone" from strat colum (fig. 2)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, acetic,

• "Slabs were disolved using acetic acid to remove carbonate and some residual minerap phases, leaving silicified fossil associations of brachiopods although carbonate brachiopod specimens were also found and removed using mechanical procedures".

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•Echinoderms reported present on strat section (Fig. 2) but not reorted in faunal list

Primary reference: A. Perez-Huerta and N. D. Sheldon. 2006. Pennsylvanian sea level cycles, nutrient availability and brachiopod paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230:264-279 [N. Heim/N. Heim/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59853: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 18.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Skunk Springs faunal data given in online supplimental material of primary reference (Perez-Huerta and Sheldon 2006)
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Verkhotomia sp., Verkhotomia cf. plenoides
Verkhotomia cf. plenoides Sokolskaja 1963
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia mormoni
Hustedia mormoni Marcou 1858
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita trilobata, Composita argentea
Composita argentea Shepard 1838
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
? Choristites cf. pavlovi, Choristites cf. fritschi
? Choristites cf. pavlovi Stuckenberg 1905
Choristites cf. fritschi Schellwien 1892