USGS 5069a, Waterloo Ground, Montpelier (Permian of the United States)

Where: Idaho (42.3° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° 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)

• Base of first shale above limestone No 3

• 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 108926: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
"Naticopsis tayloriana" = Naticopsis (Naticopsis) tayloriana
"Naticopsis tayloriana" = Naticopsis (Naticopsis) tayloriana Girty 1910 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula montpelierensis" = Nuculopsis montpelierensis
"Nucula montpelierensis" = Nuculopsis montpelierensis Girty 1910 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
"Yoldia mcchesneyana" = Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana
"Yoldia mcchesneyana" = Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana Girty 1910 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
"Leda obesa" = Polidevcia obesa
"Leda obesa" = Polidevcia obesa White 1879 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus ferrieri Girty 1910 clam
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
"Aviculopecten montpelierensis" = Streblopteria montpelierensis
"Aviculopecten montpelierensis" = Streblopteria montpelierensis Girty 1910 scallop