Collection 8383,Tombstone Hills. (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Collection 8383,Tombstone Hills, Mississippian Escabrosa Limestone; Arizona

Where: Cochise County, Arizona (31.7° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 53.0° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Underlain by Martin limestone and overlain by the Naco group.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone

• The charactersitic rocks of the Escabrosa are white to light-gray, commonly composed largely of fragments of crinoid stems.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Gilluly, J. R. Cooper, and J.S. Williams. 1954. Late Paleozoic Stratigraphy of Central Cochise County arizona. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 266:1-49 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13239: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 02.02.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Conetes sp.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum ? sp.
Rotiphyllum ? sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
"Triplophyllites ? sp." = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites ? sp." = Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan 1906 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer centronatus