Where: Idaho (42.1° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 32.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Meade Peak Member (Phosphoria Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, phosphatic shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: K.W. Ciriacks. 1963. Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(1):1-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105282: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculopsis "sp. c" Girty 1912 nut clam
Nuculopsis montpelierensis Girty 1910 nut clam | |
Schizodus ferrieri Girty 1910 clam | |
Edmondia phosphatica Girty 1910 clam | |
"Aviculopecten phosphaticus" = Vnigripecten phosphaticus
"Aviculopecten phosphaticus" = Vnigripecten phosphaticus Girty 1910 scallop |