USNM768, Camp 73, Cascado River, Grand Canyon (Permian of the United States)
Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 37.4° W)
When: Fossil Mountain Member (Kaibab Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Beta Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1974. Permian brachiopods of West Texas, II. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 15:233-793 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105506: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011
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Strophomenata | |
Meekella occidentalis n. sp.
Meekella occidentalis n. sp. Newberry 1861 |