Unit 57, Storm Creek Section, Member 4, Tunnel Mountain Fm (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 37.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 4 Member (Tunnel Mountain Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Unit 57 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 4.8 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, green, calcareous shale

• "Shale, greenish gray to green, calcareous, bioclastic, rather soft, crumbly; flat masses of Syringopora common."

Primary reference: G. O. Raasch. 1958. Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 190-215 [N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62384: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata -
Cryptostomata indet.
Cryptostomata indet. Vine 1884
stictoporid bryozoa
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet.
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
fenestellid bryozoa
Chondrichthyes
 Helodontiformes - Helodontidae
Helodus sp.
Helodus sp. Agassiz 1838 chimaera
Helodus sp. (at base)
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora aculeata
Syringopora aculeata Girty 1899 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
"Triplophyllites spinulosus" = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites spinulosus" = Amplexizaphrentis horn coral