Where: Teton County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 50.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: B Member, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• Unit 10, Member B of unknown formation name, equivalent to Twin Creek Limestone and Sundance Formation. 35ft. thick.
Environment/lithology: gray, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1956. Interpretations of the Marine Jurassic Fossil Record at Lower Slide Lake, Teton County, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association 11th Annual Field Conference Guidebook 70-71 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172981: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 06.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Astarte meeki Stanton 1899 clam | |
Homomya gallatinensis Stanton 1899 clam
Pholadomya kingi clam | |
Cercomya punctata Stanton 1899 clam | |
Thracia weedi Stanton 1899 clam | |
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa Meek 1873 clam | |
Trigonia americana clam | |
"Gervillia montanaensis" = Gervillaria montanaensis, Gervillia dolabrata
"Gervillia montanaensis" = Gervillaria montanaensis Meek 1873 oyster
Gervillia dolabrata oyster | |
Pinna kingi oyster | |
Gryphaea planoconvexa Whitfield 1876 oyster | |
Camptonectes platessiformis scallop | |
"? Idonearca haguei" = Cucullaea (Idonearca)
"? Idonearca haguei" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Chondroceras sp. ammonite |