Bull Lake Creek, Wind River Mountains (Lower Embar): Roadian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Janassidae
Janassa angularis Branson 1916
Janassa unguicula Eastman 1903
Chondrichthyes - Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Deltodus mercurii (Newberry 1876)
original and current combination Deltodus mercurei
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes
Crassidonta stuckenbergi Branson 1916
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope 1891
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Leda bellistriata Stevens 1858
recombined as Polidevcia bellistriata
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula pulchella Branson 1930
synonym of Nuculopsis poposiensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Pleurophorus sp. King 1844
replaced by Permophorus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 109.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.8° North, 30.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Roadian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 3
Key time interval:Roadian
Age range of interval:273.01000 - 266.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Phosphoria Member:Meade Peak
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Lower Embar" Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:149345
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-02 03:22:00 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-02 03:22:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36931. E. B. Branson. 1916. The Lower Embar of Wyoming and Its Fauna. The Journal of Geology 24(7):639-664 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]