Unit 98, Storm Creek Section, Member 1, Livingstone Fm (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° 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 98 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 209 feet thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "Limestone, light gray, paler weathering, massive, without perceptible bedding, mixed cryptocrystalline and bioclastic; becomes conspicuously crinoidal 50 feet below top; 90 feet below top is 25-foot zone with stringers of rough chert; numerous porous to vuggy zones occur, especially in lower half. Syringopora and cup corals abundant in upper part."

Collection methods: collection made "about 15 feet below top"

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 62409: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina keokuk
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita cf. globosa
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer keokuk