Hartshorne, Donezella-siliceous sponge buildup (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Reef 2889

Where: Pittsburg County, Oklahoma (34.8° N, 95.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 13.1° S, 36.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wapanucka Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified wackestone

• 5.8 m thick buildup of boundstone dominated by Donezella and worm tubes with peloids and micritic coatings, less common siliceous sponge boundstone, and peloidal wackestone with other bioclasts

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: S. J. Choh and B. L. Kirkland. 2006. Sedimentologic role of microproblematica Donezella in a Lower Pennsylvanian Donezella-siliceous sponge-dominated carbonate buildup, frontal Ouachita Thrust Belt, Oklahoma, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research 76:152-161 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76327: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
? Ivanovia sp. Khvorova 1946
Chlorophyceae
 Paleosiphonocladales - Donezellidae
Donezella sp. Maslov 1929
Berestovia sp. Berchenko 1982
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Florideophyceae
 Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
unclassified
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Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
siliceous sponges