USGS 21588-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Area 8, Mountain City District

Where: Elko County, Nevada (41.9° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 47.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Banner Formation, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone and wackestone

• light-gray weathering crinoidal biomicrite (packstone and wackestone) containing well-rounded fragments of brachiopods, bryozoans and ostracodes.

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. J. Sando. 1993. Coralliferous carbonate shelves of Mississippian age, west side of Antler Orogen, central Nevada. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1988-F:1-34 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6322: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.02.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
Multithecopora sp.
Multithecopora sp. Yoh 1927 tabulate coral
morphogroup A of Sando 1984
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Canadiphyllum sp.
Canadiphyllum sp. Sutherland 1954 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron cf. whitneyi, Siphonodendron cf. sinuosum
 Stauriida - Acrocyathidae
Acrocyathus sp.
Acrocyathus sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral