Brady area, McCulloch, algal banks (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Reef 399

Where: McCulloch County, Texas (31.0° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 37.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Marble Falls Formation), Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified grainstone

• Komia bank with Donezella limestones on the protected flank of the bank

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. Freeman. 1964. Algal limestones of the Marble Falls Formation (Lower Pennsylvanian), central Texas. Geological Society America Bulletin 75:669-676 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76883: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Palaeotextulariidae indet.
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp.
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Chlorophyceae
 Paleosiphonocladales - Donezellidae
Donezella sp.
Donezella sp. Maslov 1929
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily