Clover Creek, Mogollon Plateau, Beta bed 2 (Permian of the United States)

Where: Arizona (34.5° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 36.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Mountain Member (Kaibab Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Beta member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, brown limestone

• Limestone, light brown, crystalline; ledge-forming; weathers nearly black; fossiliferous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Grand Canyon National Park Museum

Primary reference: E. D. McKee. 1938. The environment and history of the Toroweap and Kaibab Formations of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 492:1-268 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148589: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae
Archaeocidaris sp. M'Coy 1844 sea urchin
Stenolaemata
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Lissochonetes sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi McKee 1938