Mountain Star, Sample 4, Bangor Limestone, Colbert Co., Alabama: Brigantian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Prismapora sp.
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| taxa listed as Pectin sp. | ||||||||||
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Craniata
- Craniida
- Craniidae
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Crania sp.
Retzius 1781
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Orthotetidae
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Orthotetes sp.
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37 specimens | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Diaphragmus sp.
Girty 1910
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Composita sp.
Brown 1849
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37 specimens | |||||||||
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Cleiothyridina sp.
Buckman 1906
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Retziidae
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Eumetria sp.
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37 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
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Anthracospirifer increbescens
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43 specimens | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Fenestellidae
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Fenestella sp.
Lonsdale 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Archimedes sp.
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Rhabdomesida
- Rhabdomesidae
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Rhabdomeson sp.
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Stenoporidae
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Tabulipora sp.
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Fistuliporidae
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Fistulipora sp.
McCoy 1850
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Phillipsiidae
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Paladin sp.
Weller 1936
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210 specimens | |||||||||
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Blastoidea
- Spiraculata
- Pentremitidae
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Pentremites sp.
Say 1820
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Colbert |
| Coordinates: | 34.6° North, 87.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.6° South, 32.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 | *Epoch: | Chesterian |
| Key time interval: | Brigantian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 336.30000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bangor Limestone | ||||
| Local section: | Mountain Star | Local bed: | sample 4 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Chesterian: assigned to the Brigantian by JA on 15.9.06 based on Waters pers. commun. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | peloidal,shelly/skeletal wackestone |
| Lithology description: spicular pelletal wackestone | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,mechanical,peel or thin section,sieve,field collection |
Metadata
| Database number: | 6747 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-03-14 18:10:50 | Last modified: | 2006-09-15 15:08:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 414. | 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] |