Mission Argellite: Wordian, Washington

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Pamirella oculus n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
abundant category
? Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
rare category
Stenolaemata - Rhabdomesida - Nikiforovellidae
Pinegopora petita n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
abundant category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Alternifenestella vagrantia n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
3 specimens
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Mackinneyella stylettia n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
6 specimens
Polyporella sp.
rare category
Parapolypora sp. Morozova and Lisitsyn 1996
rare category
Wjatkella nanea n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
9 specimens
Polypora arbusca n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
common category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Nematopora sp. Ulrich 1888
rare category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
? Streblotrypa sp.
rare category
Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
? Fistulamina sp.
rare category
Meekoporella inflecta n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
11 specimens
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora colvillensis Gilmour and Snyder 2000
abundant category
Tabulipora colvillensis n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
28 specimens
Coeloclemis urhausenii n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
3 specimens
Stenopora sp. Lonsdale 1844
rare category
Rhombotrypella kettlensis n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
9 specimens
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Eridotrypellidae
Neoeridotrypella missionensis n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
7 specimens
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella iwaizakiensis Sakagami 1961
19 specimens
Dyscritellina sp.
rare category
Pseudobatostomella sp.
rare category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
Hayasakapora cf. erectoradiata Sakagami 1960
abundance category
Hayasakapora cf. erectoradiata Sakagami 1960
common category
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomida - Timanodictyidae
Sakagamiina easternensis n. gen., n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
common category
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistuliramus pacificus n. sp. Gilmour and Snyder 2000
3 specimens
Dybowskiella sp. Waagen and Wentzel 1886
rare category
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Washington
Coordinates: 48.6° North, 118.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.1° North, 32.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Wordian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
*Period:Middle Permian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Wordian - Late/Upper Wordian
Key time interval: Wordian
Age range of interval: 266.9 - 264.28 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mission Argillite
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: brown-weathering argillite described as a biohermal bank.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8523
Authorizer:D. Erwin Enterer:D. Erwin
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-26 07:17:10 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:11
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
577. E. H. Gilmour and E. M. Snyder. 2000. Bryozoa of the Mission Argillite (Permian), northeastern Washington. Journal of Paleontology 74(4):540-570 [D. Erwin/D. Erwin/P. Wagner]