Hurricane Cliffs Locality HC 6 Bed 13 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Utah (37.1° N, 113.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 39.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Virgin Member (Moenkopi Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and marl

• Bioclastic calc-arenite with two marly horizons. Packed with unicolumnals. Rare bivalves (Promylina). No bracjiopods no gastropods.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. J. McGowan, A. B. Smith, and P. D. Taylor. 2009. Faunal diversity, heterogeneity and body size in the Early Triassic: testing post-extinction paradigms in the Virgin Limestone of Utah, USA. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 56:859-872 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63018: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 02.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Holocrinida - Holocrinidae
Holocrinus sp.
Holocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1886 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
"Promyalina putiatensis" = Promyalina putiatinensis
"Promyalina putiatensis" = Promyalina putiatinensis Kiparisova 1938 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp.
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster