Where: Bonneville County, Idaho (43.4° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 51.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sliderock Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• From nodular gray limestone directly above soft papery claystone and 20-25ft below top of member.
Environment/lithology: marine; nodular, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. W. Imlay in 1962; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1967. Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 540:1-105 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167039: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 06.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Megasphaeroceras aff. rotundum Imlay 1961 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Gryphaea planoconvexa fraterna Imlay 1967 oyster | |
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa Meek 1873 clam | |
Pholadomya inaequiplicata Stanton 1899 clam |