Steer Creek, Grayback Ridge: Lopingian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis poposiensis (Branson 1930)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.9° North, 31.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Lopingian
10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Lopingian
Age range of interval: 259.51 - 251.902 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Phosphoria Member:Retort
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Davydov et al. 2017 dated an ash bed in the upper Meade Peak Member at 260.57 ± 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.31 Ma, indicating that the Meade Peak is as young as uppermost Capitanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:105360
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-02-19 15:45:21 Last modified:2018-11-25 21:57:40
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-19 15:45:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27437. K.W. Ciriacks. 1963. Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(1):1-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]