Where: Caribou County, Idaho (42.9° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 51.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sliderock Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• About 110ft below top of member, in yellow-gray, sandy shaly limestone about 8ft above a 6ft unit of white-weathering limestone.
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, yellow, argillaceous, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R.W. Imlay and John McIntyre in 1949; 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 167053: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 06.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Stephanoceras cf. skidegatensis" = Stephanoceras
"Stephanoceras cf. skidegatensis" = Stephanoceras ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Grammatodon haguei clam | |
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa Meek 1873 clam |