Unit 10, King Creek Canyon Section, Member 1, Livingstone Fm (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.6° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 41.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 1 Member (Livingstone Formation), Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Unit 10 of King Creek Canyon Section (counting from the top). This unit is 54 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• "Limestone, pale gray, top dense, lower part interbedded dense and rather coarsely crinoidal, basal part completely crinoidal. Brachiopods occur 1 foot above base. Resistant, wall-forming unit with very prominent bedding plane at top, and a sharp contact and textural cahnge at base."

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

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62417: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Reference provides no formal taxonomic descriptions, thus taxa listed as new in the faunal list are given informal status
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Blastoidea
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Blastoidea indet.
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
? Conocardium sp.
? Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Gastropoda
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Igoceras spp." = Orthonychia
"Igoceras spp." = Orthonychia Hall 1843 snail
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops "n sp"
Craniops "n sp" Hall 1859
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp.
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella spp.
Productella spp.
Productella spp. undet.
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus "n sp"
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp., Hemitrypa sp.
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839