Also known as Reef 183
Where: Idaho (43.7° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 35.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Juniper Gulch Member (Snaky Canyon Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• Data are from biofacies 2
Primary reference: R. H. Breuninger, K. L. Canter, and P. E. Isaacson. 1989. Pennsylvanian-Permian Palaeoaplysina and algal buildups, Snaky Canyon Formation, east-central Idaho, U.S.A. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:631-637 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Palaeoaplysina sp. Krotov 1888 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Archaeolithophyllum sp. Johnson 1956 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Eugonophyllum sp. Konishi and Wray 1961 | |
Foraminifera | |
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854 | |
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921 | |