USGS Mesozoic D5308 (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae