PBDB Collection

Deseret deep slope and starved basin facies, Deseret Limestone (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Utah (39.9° N, 113.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 49.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Deseret Limestone Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• "Osage and early Meramec."

Environment/lithology: slope; cherty/siliceous limestone

• "dark micritic ls and dark organic sh w/nodular ls. some phosphorite and bedded chert. slope and disaerobic basin (> 300 m depth). tectonic foredeep basin. BA6"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. A. Sandberg and R. C. Gutschick. 1979. Guide to conodont biostratigraphy of upper Devonian and Mississippian rocks along the Wasatch Front and Cordilleran Hingeline, Utah. BYU Geological Studies 26(3):107-134 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 560: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "C.A. Sandberg and R.C. Gutschick, 1979. Guide to conodont biostrat of upper Dev. and Miss. rocks along the Wasatch Front and Cordilleran Hingeline, Utah. pp107-134. in C.A. Sandberg and D.L. Clark (eds) Conodont biostrat of the Great Basin and Rky Mtns. BYU Geol Studies 26 (3). C.A. Sandberg and R.C. Gutschick, 1980. Sed and biostrat of Osagean and Merameian starved basin and foreslope, western US. pp129-147. In T.D. Fouch and E.R. Magathan (eds) Paleozoic paleogeog. of west central US. SEPM Rky Mtn Sec, Denver, Co."

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unclassified
-	Formaniferida indet. Formaniferida indet. 6 genera
Protozoa
-	Radiolaria indet. Radiolaria indet. 10 genera
Foraminifera
Textulariina - Hyperamminidae	Hyperammina sp. Hyperammina sp. Brady 1879
Holothuroidea
-	Holothuroidea indet. Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber 4 genera, holothurian sclerites
Conodontophorida
Conodontophorida -	Conodontophorida indet. Conodontophorida indet. conodonts
Cephalopoda
Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae	Dzhaprakoceras sp., Beyrichoceras sp. Dzhaprakoceras sp. Popov 1965 ammonite originally entered as "Djhaprakoceras sp." Beyrichoceras sp. Foord 1903 ammonite
Lingulata
Lingulida - Discinidae	Orbiculoidea sp. Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Lingulida - Lingulidae	Lingula sp. Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Rhynchonellata
Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae	Leiorhynchoidea sp. Leiorhynchoidea sp. Cloud 1944
Strophomenata
Productida - Araksalosiidae	Quadratia sp. Quadratia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Deuteropoda
-	Ostracoda indet. Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod 6 genera
Anthozoa
Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae	Amplexizaphrentis sp. Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral
Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae	Cyathaxonia sp. Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral
Stauriida - Amplexidae	Amplexus sp. Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
Stauriida - Plerophyllidae	"Rhopalolasma sp." = Ufimia "Rhopalolasma sp." = Ufimia Shtukenberg 1895 horn coral
Favositida - Palaeacidae	Palaeacis sp. Palaeacis sp. Haime 1857 tabulate coral originally entered as "Paleacis sp."
Favositida - Micheliniidae	Michelinia sp. Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral originally entered as "Michelinea sp."
Hexactinellida
-	? Hexactinellida indet. ? Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge siliceous sponges (monaxon, tetraxon, hexaxon) - originally entered as "? Hexactinellida indet."