USGS 988b, Coal Canyon bed 18 (Permian of the United States)
Where: Wyoming (42.3° 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 ramp; lithified, gray limestone
• Massive gray limestone
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 108910: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
? Goniatites sp. Haan 1825 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotomaria aff. nevadensis" = Ananias nevadensis
"Pleurotomaria aff. nevadensis" = Ananias nevadensis Walcott 1884 snail |