Where: Wyoming (43.1° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 31.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ervay Member (Park City Formation), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Davydov et al. 2017 dated an ash bed in the upper Meade Peak Member at 260.57 ± 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.31 Ma, indicating that the Meade Peak is as young as uppermost Capitanian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1995. Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 227:1-95 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82134: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) sp. de Montfort 1808 snail |