Platyrachella rutherfordi zone (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (57.0° N, 120.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 40.3° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Banff Formation), Kinderhookian (360.7 - 353.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous limestone and shale

• 600 ft of interbedded shaly limestone and calcareous shale.

Primary reference: S. J. Nelson. 1961. Mississippian faunas of western Canada. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 2:1-39 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8141: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 22.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Greenockia snaringensis
"(Greenockia = ?Moorefieldella)"
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Syringopora harveyi tabulate coral
Syringopora surcularia Girty 1899 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Productida - Productellidae
"Productella cf. pyxidata" = Orbinaria pyxidata
"Productella cf. pyxidata" = Orbinaria pyxidata Hall 1858
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia rostrata Girty 1899
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
"Dielasma chouteauensis" = Beecheria chouteauensis
"Dielasma chouteauensis" = Beecheria chouteauensis Weller 1914