Mountain Star, Sample 11, Bangor Limestone, Colbert Co., Alabama: Brigantian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Aphelacrinus sp.
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debris | ||||||||||
Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Platycrinitidae
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Camptocrinus sp.
Wachsmuth and Springer 1897
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debris | ||||||||||
Blastoidea
- Spiraculata
- Pentremitidae
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Pentremites sp.
Say 1820
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debris | ||||||||||
Edrioasteroidea
- Isorophida
- Agelacrinitidae
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Discocystis sp.
Gregory 1897
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Euphemitidae
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Euphemites sp.
Warthin 1930
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31 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Platyceratidae
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Platyceras sp.
Conrad 1840
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62 specimens | |||||||||
P. (Orthonychia) sp. and P. (Platyceras) sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Polidevciidae
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Phestia sp.
Chernyshev 1951
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150 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Myalinidae
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Septimyalina sp.
Newell 1942
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61 specimens | |||||||||
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Diaphragmus sp.
Girty 1910
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92 specimens | |||||||||
Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Orthotetidae
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Orthotetes sp.
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706 specimens | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferinida
- Punctospiriferidae
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Punctospirifer sp.
North 1920
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61 specimens | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
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Anthracospirifer sp.
Lane 1963
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368 specimens | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Retziidae
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Eumetria sp.
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Composita sp.
Brown 1849
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552 specimens | |||||||||
Craniata
- Craniida
- Craniidae
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Crania sp.
Retzius 1781
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123 specimens | |||||||||
Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Fistuliporidae
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Fistulipora sp.
McCoy 1850
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Fenestellidae
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Lyropora sp.
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Archimedes sp.
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Fenestella sp.
Lonsdale 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Acanthocladiidae
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Polypora sp.
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Stenolaemata
- Rhabdomesida
- Rhabdomesidae
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Rhabdomeson sp.
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Stenoporidae
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Tabulipora sp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Phillipsiidae
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Paladin sp.
Weller 1936
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30 specimens | |||||||||
Thecostraca
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Cirripedia indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Colbert |
Coordinates: | 34.6° North, 87.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 16.6° South, 32.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 | *Epoch: | Chesterian |
Key time interval: | Brigantian | ||
Age range of interval: | 336.30000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Bangor Limestone | Local bed: | sample 11 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Chesterian: assigned to the Brigantian by JA on 15.9.06 based on Waters pers. commun. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal wackestone |
Lithology description: fenestrate bryozoan wackestone | |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,mechanical,peel or thin section,sieve,field collection |
Metadata
Database number: | 6759 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2000-03-14 19:40:22 | Last modified: | 2006-09-15 15:08:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
414. | J. A. Waters. 1978. The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama. 1-193 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen] |