Where: Utah (38.2° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 35.6° 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, gray limestone
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 148775: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
"Pugnoides" sp. Weller 1910 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi McKee 1938 |