Spring Creek (Trout Creek), Wind River, Fremont County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 30.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grandeur Member (Phosphoria Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Immediately below lower phosphate member (=Meade Peak)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.G. Fischer

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and A. G. Unklesbay. 1942. Permian nautiloids from western United States. Journal of Paleontology 16(6):719-738 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113084: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
Coelogasteroceras mexicanum Girty 1909 nautiloid