Where: Oregon (44.0° N, 119.5° W: paleocoordinates 19.2° N, 38.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Capitanian (265.0 - 259.0 Ma)

• Most probably the boulder was float from upper Triassic beds of boulder conglomerate, as much as 500 feet thick, that crop out at Big Flat, about a mile east of the locality at which the boulder was found and considerably higher in elevation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Collected by H.J. Buddenhagen

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: D. Bostwick and M. Nestell. 1965. A New Species of Polydiexodina From Central Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 39(4):611-614 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114676: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 19.08.2011

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