Unit 65, Storm Creek Section, Member 1, Mount Head Fm: Meramecian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Endothyridae
Endothyra sp.
Endothyra sp. (abundant)
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Glyptopleura sp. Girty 1910
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 114.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 40.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
Key time interval: Meramecian
Age range of interval: 343.1 - 335.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rundle Formation:Mount Head Member:1
Local section:Storm Creek Local bed:65
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 65 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 6 feet thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,black lithified calcareous "shale"
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: "Shale, black, bituminous, calcareous, brown-weathering, soft to harder, platy, bioclastic. A singly interbedded layer of hard bu hackly fracturing and calcitic limestone 1.25 feet thick lies 2 feet below top. Abundant microfauna."
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:62386
Authorizer:N. Heim Enterer:N. Heim
Modifier:N. Heim Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-19 11:35:48 Last modified:2006-07-19 14:37:34
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-19 11:35:48
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]