Mobil Oil test well 22-19-g, Tip Top Unit: Atokan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Trepeilopsis sp.
Endothyridae
Globoendothyra sp.
Endothyra sp.
Bradyinidae
? Bradyina sp.
Palaeotextulariidae
Palaeotextularia ex gr. consobrina
Palaeotextularia ex gr. longiseptata
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
Biseriamminidae
Lipinella sp.
(nom. nud.)
Eostaffellidae
Millerella sp.
Eostaffella ex gr. acutissima
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
? Eostaffellina sp. Reitlinger 1963
Archaediscidae
Asteroarchaediscus sp.
Pseudoammodiscidae
? Pseudoglomospira sp.
Tuberitinidae
Tuberitina sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sublette
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 110.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.4° North, 37.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous *Epoch:Moscovian
*Local age/stage:Atokan
Key time interval:Atokan
Age range of interval:318.40000 - 312.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Amsden Member:Ranchester
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Limestone 30-55 ft below top of Amsden Fm. "Pennsylvanian (Atokan)."
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 cherty 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:core,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: "Fossils listed by Marzolf, 1965, p.4."
Metadata
Also known as:Sando et al. Tip Top Loc.71
Database number:5734
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-11-17 16:31:43 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:11
Access level:the public Released:1999-11-17 16:31:43
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]