Where: Duchesne County, Utah (40.4° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 52.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Watton Canyon Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• 3 ft above base.
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. W. Imlay and John Mcintyre in 1949; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1967. Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 540:1-105 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167257: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 09.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea (Liostrea) strigilecula" = Liostrea strigilecula
"Ostrea (Liostrea) strigilecula" = Liostrea strigilecula White 1877 oyster | |
Camptonectes stygius White 1874 scallop | |
Modiolus subimbricatus mussel | |
Vaugonia conradi clam | |
Trigonia elegantissima, "Myophorella (Promyophorella) montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis
"Myophorella (Promyophorella) montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis Meek 1873 clam | |
Pronoella sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
Astarte meeki Stanton 1899 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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? Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail |