USGS Mesozoic Loc. 20981 - Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 51.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sliderock Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• From near top of member.

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.W. Imlay in 1947; 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 167096: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 07.03.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
? Eocephalites sp. Imlay 1967 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 nautiloid