USGS Mesozoic Loc. 21447 - Arapien Shale (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: San Pete County, Utah (39.1° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 54.6° 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, 600(?) ft below base of Twist Gulch Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. A. Reutinger in 1947; 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 169137: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 08.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
? Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam