Where: Bonneville County, Idaho (43.4° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 51.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Rich Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• Near middle of member and about 170-190ft above base of member.
Environment/lithology: marine; nodular limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. W. Imlay and Yaacov Nir in 1961; 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 167164: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 08.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Astarte meeki Stanton 1899 clam | |
Protocardia cf. schucherti cockle | |
Pronoella sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
Gryphaea planoconvexa Whitfield 1876 oyster |