Honaker Trail Formation, Moab, Utah, Unit 11A: Kasimovian - Gzhelian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Composita subtilita
(Hall 1852)
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Trigonotretidae
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Neospirifer kansasensis
(Swallow 1866)
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
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Dictyoclostus americanus
Dunbar and Condra 1932
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recombined as Reticulatia americana | |||||||
Schwagerinidae
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? Triticites sp.
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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: | 11A | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 9 inches thick; "Late Pennsylvanian" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal argillaceous dolomite |
Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
Lithology description: Argillaceous, bioclastic, fine-grained dolomite; fusulinid limestone; limey claystone | |
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: | 39986 | ||
Authorizer: | D. Bottjer | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-06-13 09:36:26 | Last modified: | 2004-06-13 13:40:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-13 09:36:26 |
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] |