USGS Mesozoic Loc. 17269 - Red Creek, Arapien Shale (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Juab County, Utah (39.8° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 54.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Twelvemile Canyon Member (Arapien Shale Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• From upper part of member.

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. L. Schaff in 1936; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. W. Imlay. 1964. Marine Jurassic Pelecypods From Central and Southern Utah. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 483-C:C1-C42 [S. Holland/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169050: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 06.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes stygius White 1874 scallop
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Myophorella (Promyophorella) montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis
"Myophorella (Promyophorella) montanaensis" = Trigonia montanaensis Meek 1873 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
cf. Astarte (Coelastarte) interlineate