West front of Mineral Mountains, east of Minersville, Beta bed 3 (Permian of the United States)

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

• Limestone, light gray, crystalline; weathers to massive cliff; very 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 148775: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Petasmariidae
"Pugnoides" sp. Weller 1910
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi
"Productus bassi" = Peniculauris bassi McKee 1938