Z5C - Hallett Construction Co. Quarry, Gilmore City Limestone: Tournaisian, Iowa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Prospira aff. greenockensis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
? Verkhotomia calvini
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Hemiplethorhynchus subovatum Carter 1972
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria iowensis Carter 1972
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Iowa County:Pocahontas
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 94.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.6° South, 37.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
Key time interval:Tournaisian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gilmore City Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Kinderhookian; is equivalent to Tournaisian by Heckel and Clayton, 2006 (Geologica acta (4):403-407)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ooidal,gray lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:141609
Authorizer:N. Bonuso Enterer:P. Monarrez
Created:2013-03-29 10:50:56 Last modified:2013-03-28 18:50:56
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-29 10:50:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46040. J. L. Carter. 1972. Early Mississippian Brachiopods from the Gilmore City Limestone of Iowa. Journal of Paleontology 46(4):473-491 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]