IU 13991 Weatherly Mountain, Huntsville (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Madison County, Alabama (34.6° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 14.5° S, 28.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Mississippian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)
• bed equivalent to lower part of Ste. Genevieve Limestone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, R. Keyes, and A. Horowitz. 1979. Two new Mississippian sponges from northeastern Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 53(3):709-719 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111888: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2011