Bed 6, Ely Limestone, Skunk Springs (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as SP0VI

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 wackestone and lithified packstone

• "wackestone-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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•Bryozoans and echinoderms reported on strat column, but not 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 59857: 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
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
Choristites cf. fritschi
Choristites cf. fritschi Schellwien 1892
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinaria aff. semipunctata, ? Echinoconchus sp.
 Productida - Productidae
Duartea bruntoni