Where: Beaver County, Utah (38.6° N, 113.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 48.9° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)
• The beds are thick-bedded (over 3 feet), to massive (over 6 feet) in most of the exposure. Dark grey to black thick-bedded to massive limestone nad dolomite with Pilot Shale below and Callville Limestone above.
Environment/lithology: dolomitic, black, gray, cherty/siliceous dolomite and limestone
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk,
• This collection was from the Redwall Limestone, which is 1240 ft. on the north side of Elephant Canyon Section 24, T. 28 S., R. 12 W. The specimens were collected form the white Mountains of the Star Range
Primary reference: J. L. B. Baer. 1962. Geology of the Star Range, Beaver County Utah. Brigham Young University, Geology Studies 9(2):29-52 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson]more details
PaleoDB collection 10137: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 17.02.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cravenoceras sp. Bisat 1928 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
Anthozoa | |
Ekvasophyllum inclinatum horn coral | |
"Lithostrotion whitneyi" = Heintzella whitneyi
"Lithostrotion whitneyi" = Heintzella whitneyi White 1875 horn coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Syringopora aculeata Girty 1899 tabulate coral |