Unit 91, Storm Creek Section, Member 4, 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: 4 Member (Mount Head Formation), Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• Unit 91 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 3 feet thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "Limestone, black, mixed bioclastic, somewhat argillaceous; resistant, massive single bed."

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 62402: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Lithostrotionella cf. banffensis
 Stauriida - Ekvasophyllidae
Ekvasophyllum inclinatum
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
"Diphyphyllum mutabile" = Lithostrotion mutabile
"Diphyphyllum mutabile" = Lithostrotion mutabile Kelly 1942 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral