Hurricane Cliffs Locality HC 1 Bed 3 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Utah (37.1° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 39.2° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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, condensed, silty grainstone

• Fine silty calc-arenite full of Promyalina forming shell pavements

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 63221: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 09.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Left Valves Counted [originally entered as "Bivalvia sp."]
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Promyalina putiatinensis Kiparisova 1938 clam
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
"Leptochondria cf. thaynesiana" = Leptochondria curtocardinalis
"Leptochondria cf. thaynesiana" = Leptochondria curtocardinalis Hall and Whitfield 1877 scallop