Where: San Pete County, Utah (39.1° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 54.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Twelvemile Canyon Member (Arapien Shale Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• From upper part of member, about 1,800(?) ft below base of Twist Gulch Member.
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. W. Imlay, John Mclntyre, and C. T. Hardy in 1949; 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 169148: 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 | |
Lyosoma enoda Sohl 1965 snail | |
? Cylindrobullina sp. von Ammon 1878 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Vaugonia cf. conradi clam | |
Crinoidea | |
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