ammonites
USNM712h, Little Crockett Tank, Orogrande (Permian of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (32.4° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 35.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hueco Formation, Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)

• "cephalopod bed"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist. 1949. American Permian nautiloids. Geological Society of America Memoir 41:1-218 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101786: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2011

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