Unit 65, Storm Creek Section, Member 1, Mount Head Fm: Meramecian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Amphissitidae
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Glyptopleura sp.
Girty 1910
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Bairdiidae
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Bairdia sp.
M'Coy 1844
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Endothyridae
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Endothyra sp.
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| Endothyra sp. (abundant) | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.5° North, 114.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.2° North, 40.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Meramecian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 343.10000 - 335.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rundle | Formation: | Mount Head | Member: | 1 |
| Local section: | Storm Creek | Local bed: | 65 | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unit 65 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 6 feet thick. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,black lithified calcareous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: "Shale, black, bituminous, calcareous, brown-weathering, soft to harder, platy, bioclastic. A singly interbedded layer of hard bu hackly fracturing and calcitic limestone 1.25 feet thick lies 2 feet below top. Abundant microfauna." | |
| Environment: | deep subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 62386 | ||
| Authorizer: | N. Heim | Enterer: | N. Heim |
| Modifier: | N. Heim | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-19 11:35:48 | Last modified: | 2006-07-19 14:37:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-19 11:35:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18034. | G. O. Raasch. 1958. Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta. Jurassic and Carboniferous of Western Canada 190-215 [N. Heim/N. Heim] |