Series | Stage | Substage | Utah Biostratigraphy |
Lower Triassic | Olenekian |
Spathian | Neopopanoceras haugi Prohungarites -Subcolumbites beds Columbites-Tirolites beds |
Smithian | Xenoceltites
Beds Anasibirites Beds Owenites Beds Inyoites Horizon Hanielites Horizon Minersvillites Beds Flemingites Beds Inyoites beaverensis Beds Lower beds Preflorianites-Kashmirites Beds Meekoceras millardense Beds Meekoceras olivieri Beds Radioceras evolvens Beds Vercherites undulatus Beds |
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Induan |
As for Smithian
Taxonomy on this web page, all ammonoids are nominal.
Because
of
the variable morphology in some populations all specimens are a
seperate species, or all are one specie with variable
morphology. Mathews (1929) described (a) 32 species of Anasibirites,
5 species of Gurlyeites, 9 of Hemiprionites "Goniodiscus"
and 1 of Kashmirites, and (b) 4 species
of Wasatchites, 3 of Kashmirites and 1 of Keyserlingites,
from Cephalopod Gulch near Salt Lake City, Utah. Later workers
placed alot of them (a) in synonomy with Anasibirites kingianus
(Waagen) and (b) in Wasatchites. In the Anasibirites
Beds (about 300mm thick) of the Confusion Range of western Utah. there
are representatives of all these genera, they grade from Hemiprionites
to Anasibirites to Gurleyites to Arctoprionites
to Wasatchites with intermediates between each. To use a
typological taxonomy would mean many new species, to use a population
taxonomy would mean one or two species. Given the short duration
of the Smithian and the difference between the faunas of the
Meekoceras and Anasibirites zones it seems best to refer all to
nominal species (with generic modifiers in quotes on some just to tell
what the specimen looks like). So for the time being most
Prionitid ammonoids from the Anasibirites beds on this site are lumped
into two species, Anasibirites multiformis Welter 1922, and Wasatchites
perrini Mathews 1929. (See the two papers by E.T. Tozer
1971 and 1994 for more).