Where: Utah (39.0° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 36.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sinbad Limestone Member (Moenkopi Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• The Moenkopi Formation in southwestern Utah contains three limestone members. The lower limestone member, the Timpoweap is only very sparsely fossiliferous and is primarily a marginal marine deposit. The middle limestone, the Virgin Member, contains limestone units deposited under normal marine conditions during the Spathian trangression. The upper limestone, the Schnabkaib Limestone, is unfossiliferous and mainly evaporitic. These limestone members are separated by red members, informally distinguished as lower, middle, and upper.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. K. Schubert and D. J. Bottjer. 1995. Aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event: Paleoecology of Lower Triassic carbonates in the western USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 116:1-39 [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32989: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 21.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Myalinella sp." = Myalina (Myalinella)
"Myalinella sp." = Myalina (Myalinella) Newell 1942 clam | |
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster | |
Pleuronectites sp. Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Leptochondria sp. Bittner 1891 scallop | |
Neoschizodus sp. Giebel 1855 clam | |
Unionites sp. Wissman 1841 clam | |
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