UO 2204-1, Coyote Butte, Grindstone-Twelvemile Creek area: Kungurian, Oregon

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora magna Cooper 1957
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma mutabile
n ssp. oregonensis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Squamularia rostrata (Kutorga 1842)
recombined as Bajkuria rostrata
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Avonia oregonensis Cooper 1957
recombined as Krotovia oregonensis
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus inexpectatus Cooper 1957
recombined as Calliprotonia inexpectatum
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
? Proboscidella carinata Cooper 1957
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Anidanthus minor Cooper 1957
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oregon County:Crook
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 119.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.8° North, 36.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:Coyote Butte
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Mesogondolella idahoensis and N. pequopensis suggest Kungurian age (Wardlaw et al., 1982)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: Sandstone beds are widespread but poorly exposed in the Coyote Butte Formation, limestone lenses are olive-grey, crinoidal fusulinid limestones in lower part of formation; Purer, finer-grained, deep-olive in colour and better bedded in the upper part with rarer fusulinids and common brachiopods.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:40975
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-04 17:39:35 Last modified:2012-06-20 21:53:05
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-04 17:39:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11041. G. A. Cooper. 1957. Permian brachiopods from central Oregon. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions 134(12):1-79 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]