USGS 981a, Layland tunnel, Sublette Range (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (42.2° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, phosphatic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. The fauna of the Phosphate beds of the Park City Formation. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 436:1-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108905: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae
"Pugnax ? weeksi" = Rhynoleichus weeksi
"Pugnax ? weeksi" = Rhynoleichus weeksi Girty 1908
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes ostiolatus" = Komiella ostiolata
"Chonetes ostiolatus" = Komiella ostiolata Girty 1910
var. minusculus
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
""Cytherella" benniei" = Cavellina benniei
""Cytherella" benniei" = Cavellina benniei Jones et al. 1883 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
Jonesina carbonifera Girty 1910 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Hollina occidentalis Girty 1910 ostracod
Hollina emaciata var. occidentalis