West Creek (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Idaho County, Idaho (45.7° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 58.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 161.2 Ma)

• formation name not indicated, but possibly Coon Hollow because Pittsburg Landing (Idaho) collection is from the same half of the same section

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• dark shales

Primary reference: G. D. Stanley, Jr. and L. Beauvais. 1990. Middle Jurassic corals from the Wallowa terrane, west-central Idaho. Journal of Paleontology 64(3):352-362 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4902: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
Platymya rockymontana Imlay 1967 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pronoella uintahensis Imlay 1964 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Myophorella (Promyophorella) montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis
"Myophorella (Promyophorella) montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis Meek 1873 clam
M. (Promyophorella)