Unit 24, Storm Creek Section, Member 1, 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: 1 Member (Tunnel Mountain Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Unit 23\4 of Storm Creek Section (counting from the top). This unit is 39 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, dolomitic, gray, argillaceous, silty, sandy limestone

• "Dolomite, black, thick bedded, cryptocrystalline; lowest (3 feet) bed 50% bioclastic, with large masses of black chert. Large heads of Syringopora silicified in top and base."

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 62374: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sublamellosa, Composita sp.
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Composita sp. A
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp.
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
Spirifer sp. (por)
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp.
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Orbiculoidea sp. A
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily