Where: Wyoming (43.2° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 30.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Meade Peak Member (Phosphoria Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
• "Lower Embar" Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, phosphatic shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: University of Missouri
Primary reference: E. B. Branson. 1916. The Lower Embar of Wyoming and Its Fauna. The Journal of Geology 24(7):639-664 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149346: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Batacanthus gigas n. sp." = Physonemus gigii
"Batacanthus gigas n. sp." = Physonemus gigii Branson 1916 elasmobranch | |
Helodus rugosus, Helodus subpolitus n. sp.
Helodus rugosus Newberry and Worthen 1870 chimaera
Helodus subpolitus n. sp. Branson 1916 chimaera | |
Campodus sp. de Koninck 1844 chimaera |