Locality B-2967, Deer Mountain (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Cochise County, Arizona (32.7° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 53.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Escabrosa limestone Formation, Early/Lower Mississippian (360.7 - 345.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: R. L. Langenheim and R. C. Epis. 1957. Holothurian sclerites from the Mississippian Escabrosa limestone, Arizona. Micropaleontology 3(2):165-170 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93776: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 02.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
Holothuroidea
 Apodida - Achistridae
Achistrum frizzelli Langenheim and Epis 1957 sea cucumber
 Apodida - Myriotrochidae
Rota martini Langenheim and Epis 1957 sea cucumber
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
"Thuroholia marginata" = Eocaudina marginata
"Thuroholia marginata" = Eocaudina marginata Langenheim and Epis 1957 sea cucumber