Unit 57, Storm Creek Section, Member 4, Tunnel Mountain Fm: Chesterian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Helodontiformes
- Helodontidae
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Helodus sp.
Agassiz 1838
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| Helodus sp. (at base) | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
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Cryptostomata indet.
Vine 1884
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| stictoporid bryozoa | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Fenestrata
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Fenestrata indet.
(Elias and Condra 1957)
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| fenestellid bryozoa | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora aculeata
Girty 1899
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Hapsiphyllidae
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Triplophyllites spinulosus
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| 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: | Rundle | Formation: | Tunnel Mountain | Member: | 4 |
| Local section: | Storm Creek | Local bed: | 57 | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unit 57 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 4.8 feet thick. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,green lithified calcareous "shale" |
| Lithology description: "Shale, greenish gray to green, calcareous, bioclastic, rather soft, crumbly; flat masses of Syringopora common." | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 62384 | ||
| Authorizer: | N. Heim | Enterer: | N. Heim |
| Modifier: | N. Heim | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-19 11:10:34 | Last modified: | 2006-07-19 14:31:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-19 11:10:34 |
| 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] |