Where: Duchesne County, Wyoming (40.4° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 52.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Boundary Ridge Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• From brown limestone 3-4 ft below massive oolitic limestone at base of Watton Canyon Member.
Environment/lithology: marine; brown limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. W. Imlay and John Mcintyre in 1949; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1967. Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 540:1-105 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167250: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 09.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pronoella sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
Astarte (Coelastarte) livingstonensis Imlay 1964 clam
Astarte meeki Stanton 1899 clam |