South Fork Canyon (Ervay Mb), Little Wind River, Fremont County: Lopingian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten coloradoensis (Newberry 1861)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Aviculopecten gryphus Newell 1938
recombined as Heteropecten gryphus
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Obliquipecten sp. Hind 1903
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
? Aviculopinna informal sp. b Meek 1864
    = Meekopinna sagitta Chronic 1952
Yancey 1978
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina (Myalina) sinuata (Branson 1930)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.9° North, 31.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Lopingian
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 251.90200 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Park City Member:Ervay
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:105352
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-02-19 15:07:36 Last modified:2018-11-25 22:09:51
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-19 15:07:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27437. 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]

Secondary references:

16473 T. E. Yancey. 1978. Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves. Bulletins of American Paleontology 74(303):257-367 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]