Where: Kane County, Utah (37.2° N, 111.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.3° N, 72.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: John Henry Member (Straight Cliffs Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.7 - 83.6 Ma)
• 12 m below top; "G sandstone bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by F. Peterson in 1966
Primary reference: F. Peterson. 1969. Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonism in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Utah. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 69-202:1–259more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100217: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cordiceramus gilberti White 1876 clam |