Where: Rich County, Utah (41.9° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 51.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sliderock Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)
• Upper 30ft of member.
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by : R.W. Imlay and John McIntyre in 1949; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1967. Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 540:1-105 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167099: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 07.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Astarte meeki Stanton 1899 clam | |
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa
"Pleuromya subcompressa" = Myacites (Pleuromya) subcompressa Meek 1873 clam | |
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Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Megasphaeroceras cf. rotundum ammonite
Eocephalites primus Imlay 1967 ammonite | |
Stemmatoceras aff. albertense, "Stephanoceras aff. nodosum" = Stephanoceras
Stemmatoceras aff. albertense ammonite
"Stephanoceras aff. nodosum" = Stephanoceras ammonite |