Unit 31, Storm Creek Section, Member 2, Tunnel Mountain Fm (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 37.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Tunnel Mountain Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Unit 31 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 73 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified limestone

• "Limestone and dolomite interbedded; calcarenite in thick, resistant beds; calcilutite, cryptocrystalline, highly argillaceous, black, fractured."

Primary reference: G. O. Raasch. 1958. Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 190-215 [N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62378: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Diaphragmus cestriensis