Pilgram's Place, sample 14, Bangor Limestone, Franklin Co., Alabama (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Alabama (34.5° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.7° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bangor Limestone Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Chesterian: assigned to the Brigantian by JA on 15.9.06 based on Waters pers. commun.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; wackestone

• fenestrate bryozoan wackestone, well sorted, finely divided debris

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: J. A. Waters. 1978. The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama. 1-193 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 6789: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 17.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
Zaphrentoides sp. Shtukenberg 1895 horn coral
Blastoidea
 Spiraculata - Pentremitidae
Pentremites sp. Say 1820 blastoid
 Troosticrinida - Troosticrinidae
Diploblastus sp. Fay 1961 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Ramulocrinus sp. Laudon and Parks 1952 Sea lily
 Ampelocrinida - Ampelocrinidae
Armenocrinus sp. Strimple and Horowitz 1971 Sea lily
 Flexibilia -
 Cladida - Phanocrinidae
Phanocrinus sp. Kirk 1937 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Dichocrinus sp. Munster 1839 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Camptocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Paladin sp. Weller 1936 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Productida sp. Sarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam
 Cardiida -
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Platyzona sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
"Coelidium sp." = Coelocaulus
"Coelidium sp." = Coelocaulus Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Euconospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Borestus sp. Thomas 1940 snail
 Murchisoniina - Luciellidae
Eotrochus sp. Whitfield 1882 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Patellilabia sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail