ammonites
UCMP D-5629, Mountain Spring, Maverick Springs Range (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (40.0° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 36.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loray Formation, Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• Middle of Loray Fm - Derbyia bed.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Yancey, L. Plas, M. Kaasa

Primary reference: T. E. Yancey. 1978. Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves. Bulletins of American Paleontology 74(303):257-367 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120970: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2011

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