Hermit trail, Beta bed 6 (Permian of the United States)

Where: Arizona (36.1° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 36.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Mountain Member (Kaibab Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Beta member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, brown, sandy limestone

• Limestone, buff, massive, very sandy, cliff-forming; contains a few chert nodules; fossiliferous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Grand Canyon National Park Museum (types or all now at USNM)

Primary reference: E. D. McKee. 1938. The environment and history of the Toroweap and Kaibab Formations of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 492:1-268 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148686: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi McKee 1938
 Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes subliratus" = Dyoros (Dyoros) subliratus
"Chonetes subliratus" = Dyoros (Dyoros) subliratus Girty 1908