Where: Utah (39.0° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 36.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sinbad Member (Moenkopi Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• 5 foot-thick unit 50 ft from the base of Sinbad Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Collected by A. Nützel, C. Schulbert in 2003
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: A. Nützel and C. Schulbert. 2005. Facies of two important Early Triassic gastropod lagerstatten: implications for diversity patterns in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Facies 51:480-500 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116017: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.09.2011, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star | |
Echinoidea | |
Lenticidaris utahensis Kier 1968 pencil urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Anawasatchites sp." = Wasatchites
"Anawasatchites sp." = Wasatchites Mathews 1929 ceratite | |
Gastropoda | |
Worthenia windowblindensis Batten and Stokes 1986 snail | |
Ampezzopleura rugosa Batten and Stokes 1986 snail | |
Neritaria sp. Koken 1892 snail | |
Cylindrobullina convexa Batten and Stokes 1986 snail | |
"Kittliconcha sciaphostera" = Pseudotritonium sciaphosterum
"Kittliconcha sciaphostera" = Pseudotritonium sciaphosterum Batten and Stokes 1986 snail | |
Battenizyga eotriassica Batten and Stokes 1986 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Sinbadiella pygmaea n. gen. n. sp.
Sinbadiella pygmaea n. gen. n. sp. Hautmann and Nützel 2005 clam | |
Tentaculita | |
""Spirorbis" cf. valvata" = Microconchus valvatus
""Spirorbis" cf. valvata" = Microconchus valvatus Munster 1831 |