Lower Embar fauna (Permian of the United States)

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
 Eugeneodontiformes -
Campodus sp. de Koninck 1844 chimaera
 Helodontiformes - Helodontidae
Helodus subpolitus n. sp. Branson 1916 chimaera
Helodus rugosus Newberry and Worthen 1870 chimaera