AMNH locality 2014, Powwow Canyon (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as unit AO on King and Knight's section H on sheet 2

Where: Texas (31.8° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 42.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Magdalena Limestone Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• 20' thick bed 217 feet above AMNH 2015

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; cherty/siliceous limestone

• This suggests an off-shore environment. However, Lane (1981: 200-201) cited evidence of several Pennsylvanian faunas such as those in the Perth Limestone of Indiana where spiculites are associated with coal cyclothems indicating

•shallower water. However, in much of the Paleozoic, spiculites are suggested to represent off-shore, deepwater niches.

• thin-bedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: R. L. Batten. 1995. Pennsylvanina (Morrowan) gastropods from the Magdalena Formation of the Hueco Mountains, Texas. American Museum Novitates 3122:1-46 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79967: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus sp. Muir-Wood 1930
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Phymatopleura nodosa Girty 1912 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Glabrocingulum cf. grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense
"Glabrocingulum cf. grayvillensis" = Glabrocingulum grayvillense Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
Glyptospira quadriserrata n. sp. Batten 1995 snail