Cedar City Section Bed 3: Spathian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Holocrinida - Holocrinidae
Holocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1886
25 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Washington
Coordinates: 37.7° North, 113.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.2° North, 38.7° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
Stage: Olenekian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Spathian
Age range of interval: 248.9 - 247.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moenkopi Member:Virgin
Local section:CC Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous "limestone"
Secondary lithology: marl
Lithology description: Bioclastic limestone grading into marl at the top of bed. Ferringuous with horizontal burrows and stellate Holocrinus
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:63061
Authorizer:A. McGowan Enterer:A. McGowan
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-04 01:21:58 Last modified:2006-08-04 04:21:58
Access level:database members Released:2006-08-04 01:21:56
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]