Montpelier Canyon, Lingula zone (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Bear Lake County, Idaho (42.3° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 34.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinwoody Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• "bed 12" (Newell & Kummel 1942)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: N. D. Newell and B. Kummel. 1942. Lower Eo-Triassic stratigraphy, Western Wyoming and Southeast Idaho. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 53:937-996 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203175: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
"Ophiceras (Metophiceras) subdemissum" = Metophiceras subdemissum
"Ophiceras (Metophiceras) subdemissum" = Metophiceras subdemissum Spath 1935 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam