Honaker Trail Formation, Moab, Utah, Unit 7B: Kasimovian - Gzhelian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Archaeocidaridae
Echinocrinus sp. Agassiz 1841
Algae
Algae indet.
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
Stage: Kasimovian - Gzhelian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 5
Key time interval: Kasimovian - Gzhelian
Age range of interval: 307 - 298.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Honaker Trail Local bed:7B
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Approximately 5 feet thick; "Late Pennsylvanian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:intraclastic,gray "limestone"
Lithology description: Limestone: micritic, gray; solution breccia, intraformational conglomerate; thin bedded; cliff former; algae
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),field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:39985
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-13 09:32:14 Last modified:2004-06-13 13:40:09
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-13 09:32:14
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]