Where: Wyoming (43.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 14.3° N, 31.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Franson Member (Park City Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 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 limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
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 105366: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Scaphellina cf. phosphoriensis" = Scaphellina concinna
"Scaphellina cf. phosphoriensis" = Scaphellina concinna Branson 1930 clam | |
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? Limipecten sp. Girty 1903 scallop
Acanthopecten coloradoensis Newberry 1861 scallop | |
Girtypecten sublaqueatus, "Aviculopecten cf. vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti
Girtypecten sublaqueatus Girty 1909 scallop
"Aviculopecten cf. vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti Beede 1902 scallop | |
Aviculopecten cf. basilicus Newell 1938 scallop | |
Cyrtorostra varicostata Branson 1930 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop | |
"Streblochondria tubicostata n. sp." = Guizhoupecten tubicostata
"Streblochondria tubicostata n. sp." = Guizhoupecten tubicostata Ciriacks 1963 scallop |