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)
• 9 inches thick; "Late Pennsylvanian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone
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 39987: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Demospongea | |
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge | |
Echinoidea | |
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus sp." = Archaeocidaris M'Coy 1844 sea urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam | |
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis
"Marginifera lasallensis" = Kutorginella lasallensis Worthen 1873 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
Neospirifer kansasensis Swallow 1866 | |
Bryozoa | |
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