Mountain Star, Sample 9, 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 and wackestone

• packstone fenestrate bryozoan wackestone

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 6755: 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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Aphelacrinus sp.
columnals
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Crania sp. Retzius 1781
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Diaphragmus sp. Girty 1910
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Luciellidae
Eotrochus sp. Whitfield 1882 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria sp. Newell 1938 scallop
Cirripedia
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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Camptocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
columnals
Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star