Unit 26, Storm Creek Section, Member 2, Tunnel Mountain Fm: Chesterian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Triplophyllites sp. Easton 1944
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 114.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.6° North, 37.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2-3
Key time interval: Chesterian
Age range of interval: 335.8 - 323.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rocky Mountain Formation:Tunnel Mountain Member:2
Local section:Storm Creek Local bed:26
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 26 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 4 feet thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,black lithified chert
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal,black lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: "Chert, black, encrinal, grading downward to black encrinal limestone; abundant drusy vugs, many with solid calcite filling."
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:62376
Authorizer:N. Heim Enterer:N. Heim
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-19 10:26:43 Last modified:2006-07-19 13:26:43
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-19 10:26:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18034. G. O. Raasch. 1958. Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 190-215 [N. Heim/N. Heim]