ammonites
USNM760, Washakie Reservoir (Permian of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 30.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Franson Member (Park City Formation), Wordian (268.0 - 265.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1975. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, III. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 19:795-1921 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105510: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

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