Bull Lake Creek, Wind River Mountains (Lower Embar) (Permian of the United States)
Where: Wyoming (43.2° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 30.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Meade Peak Member (Phosphoria Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
• "Lower Embar" Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, phosphatic shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. B. Branson. 1916. The Lower Embar of Wyoming and Its Fauna. The Journal of Geology 24(7):639-664 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149345: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Nucula pulchella Beede and Rogers 1899 nut clam | |
"Leda bellistriata" = Polidevcia bellistriata
"Leda bellistriata" = Polidevcia bellistriata Stevens 1858 clam | |
"Pleurophorus sp." = Permophorus
"Pleurophorus sp." = Permophorus Chavan 1954 clam | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Janassa unguicula Eastman 1903 chimaera
Janassa angularis Branson 1916 chimaera | |
"Deltodus mercurii" = Deltodus mercurei
"Deltodus mercurii" = Deltodus mercurei Newberry 1876 chimaera | |
Crassidonta stuckenbergi Branson 1916 chimaera | |
Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope 1891 elasmobranch |