Hurricane Cliffs Locality HC 9 Bed 6: Spathian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Gusarellidae
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? Protogusarella smithi
Perry and Chatterton 1979
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Bivalvia sp." | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Washington |
| Coordinates: | 37.3° North, 113.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.0° North, 39.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Spathian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 248.90000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | burrows,fine,brown calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | green calcareous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Fine calcareous sandstone, khaki, trough cross-bedded, small cm-scale vugs in lower part, horizontal burrows, capped by a pale green calcareous siltstone with very poorly preserved bivalves | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63034 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. McGowan | Enterer: | A. McGowan | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-02 07:01:21 | Last modified: | 2006-08-02 10:01:22 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2006-08-02 07:01:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18152. | A. J. McGowan, A. B. Smith, and P. D. Taylor. 2009. Faunal diversity, heterogeneity and body size in the Early Triassic: testing post-extinction paradigms in the Virgin Limestone of Utah, USA. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 56:859-872 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham] |