Wood Canyon, packstone (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Custer County, Idaho (43.7° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 41.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Late Chesterian, Mamet Foraminiferal Zone 19

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified packstone

• transported brachiopod assemblages in packstones

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 93288: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer curvilateralis, Anthracospirifer shawi, Anthracospirifer occiduus, Anthracospirifer leidyi
Anthracospirifer curvilateralis Easton 1962
subsp. curvilateralis
Anthracospirifer shawi Gordon 1975
subsp. shawi and exoletus
Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subquadrata, Composita sigma, Composita idahoensis
Composita sigma Gordon 1975