Bargee, Owl Creek Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.6° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 31.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K.W. Ciriacks. 1963. Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(1):1-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82435: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
"Aviculopecten cf. vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti
"Aviculopecten cf. vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti Beede 1902 scallop
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten coloradoensis Newberry 1861 scallop
? Limipecten sp. Girty 1903 scallop
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Cyrtorostra varicostata Branson 1930 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten cf. basilicus Newell 1938 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
"Myalina cf. sinuata" = Myalina (Myalina) sinuata
"Myalina cf. sinuata" = Myalina (Myalina) sinuata Branson 1930 clam
 Trigoniida - Costatoriidae
"Costatoria sexradiata" = Procostatoria sexradiata
"Costatoria sexradiata" = Procostatoria sexradiata Branson 1930 clam