Sponge-microbial mound facies in Mississippian Tuscumbia Limestone, Walker County, Alabama

Kopaska-Merkel, David C.; Mann, Steven D.; Pashin, Jack C.

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“…The Woodville mound was built by a consortium of organisms (including Aphralysia anfracta n. sp, Aphralysia capriorae , and Problematicum A) strikingly different from those that built any previously described Mississippian mounds or reefs in or near Alabama (Gibson, 1986; Kopaska-Merkel and Haywick, 2001, 2014; Kopaska-Merkel et al, 2013; Fig. 15).…”

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“…Modified from Kopaska-Merkel and Haywick (2014). Data also from Gibson (1986), Kopaska-Merkel and Haywick (2001), Kopaska-Merkel et al (2013), and Haywick et al (2016). …”

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“…Smaller bioherms in the Bangor Limestone were built by various combinations of rugose corals, fenestrate and other bryozoans, pelmatozoans, and nonskeletal microbes (Kopaska-Merkel and Haywick, 2014). Two other Mississippian mounds have been described from Alabama: (1) a bryozoan mud mound in the Pennington Formation (Gibson, 1986), and (2) a sponge-microbial mound in the Tuscumbia Limestone (Kopaska-Merkel et al, 2013). More recently, investigations of the Monteagle-Hartselle interval in northeastern Alabama yielded three small carbonate mounds (Haywick et al, 2016; Fig.…”

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A new mound-building biota from the lower Carboniferous of Alabama

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2020

J. Paleontol.

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A small (1.2 m) columnar carbonate mound in shaley strata equivalent to the Hartselle Sandstone (lower Serpukhovian) near Woodville, northeastern Alabama, was built by a consortium of species unlike those of other Carboniferous mounds in the southeastern United States. The mound contains a new problematic microencruster, Aphralysia anfracta new species, along with encrusting bryozoans (Fistulipora M'Coy, 1849), nonskeletal microbes, and other microencrusters, including Aphralysia capriorae Mamet and Roux, 1975, in a carbonate mud matrix. Mound cavities are filled with three generations of carbonate and siliciclastic sediment. Other biotic constituents of the mound include oncoids, sponges (including Pileospongia Rigby, Keyes, and Horowitz, 1979), gastropods, crinoids, a tabulate coral, and coenobionts, including coccoid calcimicrobes. The mound biota, especially the microencrusters, is dramatically different from those of other Serpukhovian mounds that have been described from Alabama (made by various consortia of rugose corals, fenestrate bryozoans, crinoids, sponges, and nonskeletal microbes). Indeed, the Woodville mound extends the range of the lower Carboniferous encruster Aphralysia Garwood, 1914 to North America.UUID: http://zoobank.org/d3988875-a7fb-4382-bd14-b17c083d87ad

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“…Modified from Kopaska-Merkel and Haywick (2014). Data also from Gibson (1986), Kopaska-Merkel and Haywick (2001), Kopaska-Merkel et al (2013), and Haywick et al (2016). …”

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A new mound-building biota from the lower Carboniferous of Alabama

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“…The dolostone at the top of the Chepultepec is interpreted to be the product of widespread exposure and dolomitization during development of the unconformity that marks the top of the Knox Group throughout the eastern United States. Gorgas #1 borehole contains an unusual reefal facies near the base of the Tuscumbia, which has been studied in detail by Kopaska-Merkel et al (2013). Sandstone (e.g., Thomas, 1972;Pashin, 1993).…”

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