Honaker Trail Formation, Moab, Utah, Unit 5: Kasimovian - Gzhelian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Algae
|
||||||||||
|
Algae indet.
|
||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
|
||||||||||
|
Syringopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
|
||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Cyathopsidae
|
||||||||||
|
Caninia torquia
(Owen 1852)
|
||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lophophyllidae
|
||||||||||
|
Lophophyllidium profundum
(Milne-Edward and Haime 1851)
|
||||||||||
|
Echinoidea
|
||||||||||
|
Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
|
||||||||||
| Spines | ||||||||||
|
Echinoidea
- Archaeocidaridae
|
||||||||||
|
Echinocrinus sp.
Agassiz 1841
|
||||||||||
| synonym of Archaeocidaris | ||||||||||
|
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
|
||||||||||
|
Dictyoclostus americanus
Dunbar and Condra 1932
|
||||||||||
| recombined as Reticulatia americana | ||||||||||
| Listed in text and appendix, but not faunal list table | ||||||||||
|
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Echinoconchidae
|
||||||||||
|
Echinoconchus semipunctatus
|
||||||||||
|
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Trigonotretidae
|
||||||||||
|
Neospirifer kansasensis
(Swallow 1866)
|
||||||||||
|
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
|
||||||||||
|
Composita subtilita
(Hall 1852)
|
||||||||||
|
unclassified
|
||||||||||
|
Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
|
||||||||||
| Branching, massive branching, and sheeting | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Grand |
| Coordinates: | 38.6° North, 109.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.5° North, 37.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Kasimovian - Gzhelian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 307.00000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Honaker Trail | Local bed: | 5 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 40 foot thick interval; "Late Pennsylvanian" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,burrows,gray "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | sandy dolomite |
| Lithology description: Limestone and dolomite: micritic and algal (biostromal), gray and green; flat bedded; cliff former; trace fossils. Strat section shows lower sandy dolomite, thick middle limestone, and thin upper dolomite. | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: "open marine" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Corals identified with acetate peels | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 39983 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Bottjer | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-06-13 09:18:00 | Last modified: | 2004-06-13 13:37:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-13 09:18:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10840. | R. A. Melton. 1972. Paleoecology and paleoenvironment of the upper Honaker Trail Formation near Moab, Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 19(2):45-88 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |