Where: Sublette County, Wyoming (42.3° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 51.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Watton Canyon Member (Twin Creek Limestone Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• About 150 ft above base of member and 16 ft below top of unit 12 of published section (Imlay, 1950a, p. 42).
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. W. Imlay in 1947; 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 167255: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 09.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea (Liostrea) strigilecula" = Liostrea strigilecula
"Ostrea (Liostrea) strigilecula" = Liostrea strigilecula White 1877 oyster | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) occidentalis" = Plagiostoma, Ctenostreon cf. gikshanensis
"Lima (Plagiostoma) occidentalis" = Plagiostoma file clam
Ctenostreon cf. gikshanensis file clam | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop |