Montpelier Canyon, old mine, Bear Lake County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Bear Lake County, Idaho (42.3° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 32.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meade Peak Member (Phosphoria Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Some 10-15 feet above a limestone whih directly overlies the main phosphate beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, phosphatic, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.G. Fischer

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. M. Furnish, and D. L. Clark. 1957. Permian ammonoids from western United States. Journal of Paleontology 31(6):1057-1068 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105291: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Spirolegoceratidae
Spirolegoceras fischeri n. gen. n. sp.
Spirolegoceras fischeri n. gen. n. sp. Miller et al. 1957 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Cyclolobidae
Demarezites furnishi n. sp. Spinosa and Nassichuk 1994 ammonite