South Fork Canyon (Ervay Mb), Little Wind River, Fremont County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.0° N, 109.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.7° N, 30.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ervay Member (Park City Formation), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Davydov et al. 2017 dated an ash bed in the upper Meade Peak Member at 260.57 ± 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.31 Ma, indicating that the Meade Peak is as young as uppermost Capitanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: K.W. Ciriacks. 1963. Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(1):1-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105352: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina (Myalina) sinuata Branson 1930 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Meekopinna sagitta Chronic 1952 oyster
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
"Aviculopecten gryphus" = Heteropecten gryphus
"Aviculopecten gryphus" = Heteropecten gryphus Newell 1938 scallop
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten coloradoensis Newberry 1861 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Obliquipecten sp. Hind 1903 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop