1205-middle (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Bonneville, Madison, Teton County, Idaho (43.7° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° S, 44.2° W)

When: Mission Canyon Limestone Formation, Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• Fossil found in lower half of the formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. H. Staatz and H. F. Albee. 1966. Geology of the Garns Mountain Quadrangle Bonneville, Madison, and Teton Counties, Idaho. United States Geological Survey Bulletin (1205) [A. Zaffos/E. Ito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184608: authorized by Andrew Zaffos, entered by Erika Ito on 13.03.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Syringopora surcularis tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Uraliniidae
Vesiculophyllum sp. Easton 1944 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
Homalophyllites sp. Easton 1944 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
cf. S. rowleyi