Hurricane Cliffs Locality HC 3 Bed 9 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Utah (37.0° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 39.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Virgin Member (Moenkopi Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous sandstone

• Shelly calc-arenite. Top surface with large siltstone clasts. Rinks, terebratulids, crinoid columnals, gastropods. See photo PDT and notes AJM

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. McGowan, A. B. Smith, and P. D. Taylor. 2009. Faunal diversity, heterogeneity and body size in the Early Triassic: testing post-extinction paradigms in the Virgin Limestone of Utah, USA. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 56:859-872 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64719: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 13.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
"Piarorhynchella triassicus" = Nudirostralina
"Piarorhynchella triassicus" = Nudirostralina