Where: Wyoming (43.3° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 31.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-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.
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 96805: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Permophorus sp. Chavan 1954 clam
Stutchburia sp. Etheridge 1900 clam | |
Vacunella elongata Ciriacks 1963 clam
? Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam | |
Parallelodon cf. multistriatus Girty 1909 clam | |
Acanthopecten coloradoensis Newberry 1861 scallop | |
"Aviculopecten cf. vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti
"Aviculopecten cf. vanvleeti" = Heteropecten vanvleeti Beede 1902 scallop | |
Cyrtorostra varicostata Branson 1930 scallop | |
Obliquipecten sp. Hind 1903 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop |