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

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
? Goniatites sp. Haan 1825 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria aff. nevadensis" = Ananias nevadensis
"Pleurotomaria aff. nevadensis" = Ananias nevadensis Walcott 1884 snail