Where: Nevada (40.0° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.3° N, 36.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 530' (162 m) above base of Riepetown Fm

• 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 120978: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2011

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