Where: Wyoming (42.6° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 30.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grandeur Member (Park City Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Five-inch thick fossiliferous layer, part of a prominent eight-foot thick limestone ledge in the Grandeur Member (Kungurian with Mesogondolella idahoensis; Henderson & Mei, 2000)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original silica
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: D. W. Boyd and N.D. Newell. 1972. Taphonomy and diagenesis of a Permian fossil assemblage from Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 46(1):1-14 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81512: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Polidevcia sp. Tschernyschev 1943 clam | |
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Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam | |
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Oriocrassatella elongata n. sp.1
Oriocrassatella elongata n. sp.1 Boyd and Newell 1968 clam 390 left valves, 364 right valves, 2 articulated
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Astartella aueri n. sp.1
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Kaibabella basilica n. sp.4, Eoastarte subcircularis4, Schizodus wyomingensis n. sp.4, Schizodus bifidus4, Schizodus altus n. sp.4
Kaibabella basilica n. sp.4 Newell and Boyd 1975 clam 757 left valves, 747 right valves, 2 articulated
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"Scaphellina bradyi" = Scaphellina concinna
"Scaphellina bradyi" = Scaphellina concinna Branson 1930 clam 557 left valves, 575 right valves, 1 articulated
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| Trilobita | |
"Anisopyge sevilloidia n. sp." = Delaria sevilloidia2
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