Unit 85, Storm Creek Section, Member 4, Mount Head Fm (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 40.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 4 Member (Mount Head Formation), Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• Unit 85 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 13.5 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified chert and lithified, fine-grained limestone

• "Chert, light and dark laminated, massive, with remnants of finely crystalline, dark limestone in upper part and inter-zoned in lower part, which in non-laminated. Top surface marked by large rounded chert masses. Forms conspicuous, projecting shoulder in mountain side. Numerous small productids in calcareous basal 4 feet."

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 62400: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer bifurcatus
 Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria cf. verneuiliana
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ekvasophyllidae
Ekvasophyllum inclinatum
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp.
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral