Divide between Clover Creek and Pivot Canyon: Kungurian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona
Coordinates: 34.5° North, 111.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.0° North, 36.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Kungurian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
Key time interval: Kungurian
Age range of interval: 283.3 - 274.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kaibab Member:Fossil Mountain
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Beta member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Limestone, white to cream, soft, claylike; weathers in large blocks with cream surface; very fossiliferous
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: Repository: Grand Canyon National Park Museum (types or all specimens now at USNM)
Metadata
Database number:128494
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-06-10 04:04:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-06-10 04:04:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
21651. E. D. McKee. 1938. The environment and history of the Toroweap and Kaibab Formations of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 492:1-268 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]