USGS Mesozoic Loc. 3821 - Twin Creek Limestone: Late/Upper Bajocian, Wyoming
collected by A.R. Schultz 1906
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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columnals | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Vaugonia conradi
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Camptonectes stygius
White 1874
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Ostrea (Liostrea) strigilecula
(White 1877)
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recombined as Liostrea strigilecula | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Lincoln |
Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 110.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.4° North, 50.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bajocian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Bajocian | ||
Age range of interval: | 168.60000 - 168.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Twin Creek Limestone | Member: | Rich |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
Collectors: | A.R. Schultz | Collection dates: | 1906 |
Metadata
Database number: | 167178 | ||
Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | P. Monarrez |
Created: | 2015-03-08 15:00:28 | Last modified: | 2015-03-08 15:00:28 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-03-08 15:00:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
54548. | R. W. Imlay. 1967. Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 540:1-105 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez] |