TO-A-4, Torrey: Smithian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria occidanea (Meek 1877)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten informal sp. A Winchell 1865
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Unionites cf. fassaensis (Wissmann 1841)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticopsidae
Abrekopsis cf. depresispirus (Batten and Stokes 1986)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah
Coordinates: 38.3° North, 111.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.2° North, 37.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Smithian
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 248.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Thaynes
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:deep subtidal ramp
Geology comments: Most samples were derived from intercalated, more fine-grained beds that were deposited between fair weather wave base and storm wave base.
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: Palaeontological Institute and Museum at the University of Zürich (PIMUZ)
Metadata
Database number:156099
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-07 23:54:24 Last modified:2014-05-07 23:54:24
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-07 23:54:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

51103. R. Hofmann, H. Hautmann, A. Brayard, A. Nützel, K. G. Bylund, J. F. Jenks, E. Vennin, N. Olivier, and H. Bucher. 2014. Recovery of benthic marine communities from the end-Permian mass extinction at the low latitudes of eastern Panthalassa. Palaeontology 57:547-589 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]