Beaver Dam Mountains BM5, Bed 8: Spathian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
? Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865
Bed 9 in plate caption (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Washington
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 113.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.4° North, 39.2° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Spathian
Age range of interval:248.90000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moenkopi Member:Virgin
Local section:BM 5 Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:141606
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-29 10:34:42 Last modified:2013-03-28 18:34:42
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-29 10:34:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44069. M. Hautmann, A. B. Smith, A. J. McGowan and H. Bucher. 2013. Bivalves from the Olenekian (Early Triassic) of south-western Utah: systematics and evolutionary significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11:263-293 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]