USGS 15166 [Chainman Shale] (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.8° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 45.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chainman Shale Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chainman Shale, roughly 630 ft above the 4 ft limestone marker bed which is 340 ft above the base of the formation. AGE: Chesterian, derived from Geolex.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gordon in 1954; reposited in the USGS

• COLLECTORS: M. Gordon, Jr, I. G. Sohn, and R. Kopf, 1954. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: R. H. Flower and M. Gordon. 1959. More Mississippian belemnites. Journal of Paleontology 33(5):809-842 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84406: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.10.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Only includes Cephalopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Hematitida - Hematitidae
Hematites barbarae
Hematites barbarae Flower and Gordon 1959 belemnite