Unit 69, Storm Creek Section, Member 1, Mount Head Fm (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 40.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 1 Member (Mount Head Formation), Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• Unit 69 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 10 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, black, calcareous shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone

• "Similar to 68 [PBDB Collection 62387] but slightly more resistant, with less shale, but shattered."

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 62388: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Some small brachiopods and abundant bryozoans present but not recorded. The end of the taxonomic list ends in "etc.".
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Fabalicypris sp.
 Palaeocopida - Paraparchitidae
Paraparchites sp.
Paraparchites sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Glyptopleura sp.
Glyptopleura sp. Girty 1910 ostracod
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites sp.
Pentremites sp. Say 1820 blastoid