Unit 69, Storm Creek Section, Member 1, Mount Head Fm: Meramecian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Blastoidea
- Pentremitida
- Pentremitidae
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Pentremites sp.
Say 1820
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Amphissitidae
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Glyptopleura sp.
Girty 1910
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Paraparchitidae
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Paraparchites sp.
Ulrich and Bassler 1906
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Bairdiidae
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Fabalicypris sp.
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
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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: | 69 | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unit 69 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 10 feet thick. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black lithified calcareous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified argillaceous "limestone" |
| Lithology description: "Similar to 68 [PBDB Collection 62387] but slightly more resistant, with less shale, but shattered." | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Some small brachiopods and abundant bryozoans present but not recorded. The end of the taxonomic list ends in "etc.". | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 62388 | ||
| Authorizer: | N. Heim | Enterer: | N. Heim |
| Modifier: | N. Heim | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-19 11:46:29 | Last modified: | 2006-07-19 14:51:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-19 11:46:29 |
| 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] |