Where: Wyoming (44.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 49.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Stockade Beaver Shale Member (Sundance Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; sandy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace, original calcite
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: R. P. Wright. 1974. Jurassic Bivalves from Wyoming and South Dakota: A study of feeding relationsips. Journal of Paleontology 48(3):425-433 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36531: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Camptonectes platessiformis scallop | |
Meleagrinella curta Hall 1852 scallop | |
"Ostrea strigilecula" = Liostrea strigilecula, Gryphaea nebrascensis
"Ostrea strigilecula" = Liostrea strigilecula White 1877 oyster
Gryphaea nebrascensis oyster | |
"Myophorella montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis
"Myophorella montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis Meek 1873 clam |