Fox Trap, sample 13, 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 wackestone

• 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 6805: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 17.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
 Productida -
Productida sp. Sarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Euconospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Platyzona sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
P. (Platyceras) sp. (1), and P. (Orthonychia) sp. (1)
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam
 Cardiida -
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
 Pectinida - Annuliconchidae
Annuliconcha sp. Newell 1938 scallop
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Paladin sp. Weller 1936 trilobite
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Acrocrinitidae
Acrocrinus sp. Yandell 1855 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Dichocrinus sp. Munster 1839 Sea lily
 Ampelocrinida - Ampelocrinidae
Armenocrinus sp. Strimple and Horowitz 1971 Sea lily
Cymbiocrinus sp. Kirk 1944 Sea lily
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Ramulocrinus sp. Laudon and Parks 1952 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Agassizocrinidae
Agassizocrinus sp. Owen and Shumard 1852 Sea lily
 Cladida - Phanocrinidae
Phanocrinus sp. Kirk 1937 Sea lily
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Pentremitidae
Pentremites sp. Say 1820 blastoid
 Troosticrinida - Troosticrinidae
Diploblastus sp. Fay 1961 blastoid
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Ophiuroidea
  -
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star