Kearsarge section, bed 8 of Stauffer 1930 (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (36.8° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 74.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vaughn Gulch Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Limestone, dark bluish gray, hard, splitting into thin slaty beds that clink when struck. Some chert. Most of the limestones are compact and fine-grained, but there are some crinoidal lenses.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. R. Stauffer; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. R. Stauffer. 1930. The Devonian of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 19(4):81-118 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 229251: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 24.02.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
? Leiorhynchus sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp.
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp., Striatopora sp.
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp., Favosites limitaris, Favosites hemispherica
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites limitaris Rominger 1876 tabulate coral
Favosites hemispherica Troost 1840 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites occidentales n. sp., "Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus
Heliolites occidentales n. sp. Stauffer 1930 tabulate coral
misspelled as "Heliolites occidentale"
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum "sp. 2", Cyathophyllum "sp. 3"
Cyathophyllum "sp. 2" Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
Cyathophyllum "sp. 3" Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum sp.
Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Diphyphyllum sp.
Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
"small one"
Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia sphaeroidalis
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge