Honaker Trail Formation, Moab, Utah, Unit 7A (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Grand County, Utah (38.6° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 37.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Honaker Trail Formation, Kasimovian to Kasimovian (307.0 - 298.9 Ma)

• 5 feet thick; "Late Pennsylvanian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; intraclastic, gray limestone

• "open marine"
• Limestone: micritic, gray; solution breccia, intraformational conglomerate; thin bedded; cliff former

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. A. Melton. 1972. Paleoecology and paleoenvironment of the upper Honaker Trail Formation near Moab, Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 19(2):45-88 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39984: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Spines
  - Archaeocidaridae
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris M'Coy 1844 sea urchin
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
? Echinoconchus sp.
 Productida - Linoproductidae
? Linoproductus sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp., Composita subtilita
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
? Pseudomonotis sp., Pseudomonotis equistriata
? Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop
Pseudomonotis equistriata Beede 1900 scallop