Little Dry Creek, Dinwoody Ridge, Fremont County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.3° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 31.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ervay Member (Park City Formation), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Davydov et al. 2017 dated an ash bed in the upper Meade Peak Member at 260.57 ± 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.31 Ma, indicating that the Meade Peak is as young as uppermost Capitanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

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 105285: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina (Myalina) wyomingensis Lea 1853 clam
ssp. thomasi
Myalina (Myalina) sinuata Branson 1930 clam