Where: Montana (44.9° N, 112.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 32.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tosi Member (Phosphoria 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: marine; lithified, cherty/siliceous siliciclastic sediments
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 105335: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Permophorus sp. Chavan 1954 clam | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
"Myalina (Myalinella) meeki" = Myalinella meeki
"Myalina (Myalinella) meeki" = Myalinella meeki Dunbar 1924 clam | |
Acanthopecten coloradoensis Newberry 1861 scallop | |
Aviculopecten cf. kaibabensis Newell 1938 scallop |