Burroughs Creek (Ervay Mb), Fremont County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.7° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 31.7° 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 87294: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Cyrtorostra varicostata Branson 1930 scallop
 Trigoniida - Costatoriidae
"Costatoria sexradiata" = Procostatoria sexradiata
"Costatoria sexradiata" = Procostatoria sexradiata Branson 1930 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus bifidus Ciriacks 1963 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
? Permophorus sp. Chavan 1954 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Vacunella elongata Ciriacks 1963 clam