Fox Trap, sample 18, 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 6810: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 17.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Ramulocrinus sp. Laudon and Parks 1952 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Productida sp. Sarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
[entered as Aviculopectin sp.]