Where: Bear Lake County, Idaho (42.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 35.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• The Tirolites zone lies about 225 feet above the Meekoceras zone and about 30 feet below the Columbites zone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale
Primary reference: J. P. Smith. 1932. Lower Triassic ammonoids of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 167 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/C. Jamet]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33317: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 25.07.2003, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
"Pentacrinus (Isocrinus) smithi" = Holocrinus smithi
"Pentacrinus (Isocrinus) smithi" = Holocrinus smithi Clark and Twitchell 1915 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Pugnoides triassicus" = Piarorhynchella triassica
"Pugnoides triassicus" = Piarorhynchella triassica Girty 1927 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea de Blainville 1825 | |
"Tirolites harti" = Tirolites harti, "Tirolites pealei" = Tirolites harti, "Tirolites knighti" = Tirolites harti
"Tirolites harti" = Tirolites harti Smith 1932 ceratite
"Tirolites pealei" = Tirolites harti Smith 1932 ceratite
"Tirolites knighti" = Tirolites harti Smith 1932 ceratite | |
Dalmatites attenuatus Smith 1932 ceratite | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pseudomonotis idahoensis scallop
Pseudomonotis pealei scallop |