USGS 21725-PC: Morrowan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
|
||||||||||
Antracospirifer occidus
|
||||||||||
Calcisphaera sp.
Williamson 1880
|
||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
|
||||||||||
Composita ovata
Mather 1915
|
||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Echinoconchidae
|
||||||||||
? Echinoconchus sp.
|
||||||||||
sp. A | ||||||||||
Archaediscidae
|
||||||||||
Asteroarchaediscus bachkiricus
|
||||||||||
Asteroarchaediscus sp.
|
||||||||||
Endothyridae
|
||||||||||
Endothyra sp.
|
||||||||||
Tuberitinidae
|
||||||||||
Eotuberitina sp.
|
||||||||||
Tuberitina sp.
|
||||||||||
Pseudoammodiscidae
|
||||||||||
Pseudoglomospira sp.
|
||||||||||
Earlandiidae
|
||||||||||
Earlandia sp.
|
||||||||||
Biseriamminidae
|
||||||||||
Lipinella sp.
|
||||||||||
(nom. nud.) | ||||||||||
Biseriella moderata
|
||||||||||
Biseriella sp.
|
||||||||||
Globivalvulina ex gr. bulloides
(Brady 1876)
|
||||||||||
Eostaffellidae
|
||||||||||
Eostaffella sp.
Rauser-Chernousova 1948
|
||||||||||
unclassified
|
||||||||||
cf. Palaeonubecularia sp.
Reitlinger 1950
|
||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Carbon |
Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 107.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 2.3° North, 36.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
Stage: | Bashkirian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Bashkirian | *Local age/stage: | Morrowan |
Key time interval: | Morrowan | ||
Age range of interval: | 323.20000 - 318.40000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Amsden | Member: | Ranchester | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Float from limestone bed 140.5-142.5 ft above base of Amsden Fm. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lenticular,concretionary,gray,yellow lithified sandy,cherty/siliceous dolomite | ||
Secondary lithology: | green,red "shale" | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: ranchester: heterogenous sequence of interbedded chery dolomite and limestone, sandstone, and shale. carbonate rocks predominate; thin- to thick-bedded, fine grained to coarsely crystalling, yellowish-gray weathering dolomite and dolomitic limestone are generally much more abundant than thin-bedded, fine- to medium-grained, light-gray to purple weathering limestone. carbonate beds, particularly dolomites, contain abundant gray, brown or jasperoid chert in small nodules, irregular lenses and irregular networks. red and green shale in thin beds and partings are commonly interbedded with the carbonate rocks, particularly in the upper half, and may compose significant thicknesses of the member at some localities. thin beds of fine- to medium-grained, white to pink sandstone occur throughout the member but are most abundant in the upper half. quartz sand is also a minor constituent of some of the carbonate beds. anhydrite was reported as a minor constituent of some dolomite beds. | |||
Environment: | offshore shelf | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Collection method comments: "Collected by W.J. Sando and K.R. Moore, 1964." |
Metadata
Also known as: | Sando et al. Buck Spring Loc.14 | ||
Database number: | 5682 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-11-15 14:35:01 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-11-15 14:35:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
349. | W. J. Sando, M., J.r. Gordon, and J. T. Dutro. 1975. Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 848A:1-83 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner] |