Paris Canyon, Meekoceras beds, Bear Lake Valley (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Bear Lake County, Idaho (42.2° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 35.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thaynes Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Hyatt and J. P. Smith. 1905. The Triassic cephalopod genera of America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 40:1-394 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33292: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 24.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Meekoceratidae
Juvenites kraffti Smith 1927 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Paranannites aspenensis Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Dieneroceratidae
"Flemingites aplanatus" = Wyomingites aplanatus
"Flemingites aplanatus" = Wyomingites aplanatus White 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Meekoceras mushbachanum White 1879 ceratite
Meekoceras gracilitatis White 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras multilobatum Noetling 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Lanceolitidae
Lanceolites compactus Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite