Where: San Pete County, Utah (39.1° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 54.6° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Twelvemile Canyon Member (Arapien Shale Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• From upper part of member, 600(?) ft below base of Twist Gulch Formation
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. T. Hardy in 1948; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1964. Marine Jurassic Pelecypods From Central and Southern Utah. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 483-C:C1-C42 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169138: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 08.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
? Neridomus sp. Morris and Lycett 1915 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Camptonectes stygius White 1874 scallop | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Myopholas hardyi Imlay 1964 clam |