Where: Summit County, Utah (40.8° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 51.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sliderock Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• about 11ft. above thin bed of green tuff at top of Gypsum Spring Member
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by 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 167118: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 07.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Prorokia fontenellensis Imlay 1967 clam
Astarte (Coelastarte) livingstonensis Imlay 1964 clam | |
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa Meek 1873 clam | |
Pholadomya kingi clam |