Box Canyon, Howe, deep-water (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Butte County, Idaho (43.9° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 40.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Adetognathus unicornis conodont zone, Arco Hills Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• Late Chesterian, Mamet Foraminiferal Zone 19

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified lime mudstone

• deep water dysaerobic mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. H. Butts. 2007. Silicified Carboniferous (Chesterian) Brachiopoda of the Arco Hills Formation, Idaho. Journal of Paleontology 81(1):48-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93284: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea wyomingensis Branson and Greger 1918