Red Mountain (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (41.0° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 29.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Satanka Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Basal fossiliferous limestone of Satanka Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. D. Newell. 1942. Lower Paleozoic pelecypods: Mytilacea. University of Kansas Publications 10(2):1-115 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115888: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina (Myalina) wyomingensis Lea 1853 clam
ssp. thomasi