Hilltop, near Havasu Canyon, Toroweap Beta bed 3: Kungurian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Bellerophon sp.
de Montfort 1808
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| 11 feet up | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 112.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.3° North, 36.8° West | ||
| 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: | 283.50000 - 273.01000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Toroweap |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow lithified dolomite |
| Lithology description: Dolomite, gray to yellow, thin-bedded (2-6 inches), hard; forms ledges; fossiliferous | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
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 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Grand Canyon National Park Museum (types or all now at USNM) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 148750 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-25 11:39:03 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-07-25 11:39:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |