P12, Tucker Butte, Grindstone-Twelvemile Creek area (Permian of the United States)

Where: Crook County, Oregon (43.9° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 36.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coyote Butte Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Mesogondolella idahoensis and N. pequopensis suggest Kungurian age (Wardlaw et al., 1982)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and sandstone

• 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.

Size class: macrofossils

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41232: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Cleiothyridina gerardi" = Himathyris gerardi
"Cleiothyridina gerardi" = Himathyris gerardi Diener 1899
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Squamularia rostrata" = Bajkuria rostrata
"Squamularia rostrata" = Bajkuria rostrata Kutorga 1842
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Anidanthus minor Cooper 1957
 Productida - Productellidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes" "sp. 1" Fischer de Waldheim 1830