Mountain Star, Sample 6, Bangor Limestone, Colbert Co., Alabama (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Colbert County, Alabama (34.6° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bangor Limestone Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Chesterian: assigned to the Brigantian by JA on 15.9.06 based on Waters pers. commun.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal packstone

• brachipod packstone

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: J. A. Waters. 1978. The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama. 1-193 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 6750: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Ramulocrinus sp. Laudon and Parks 1952 Sea lily
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Paladin sp. Weller 1936 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Diaphragmus sp. Girty 1910
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872