Where: California (36.0° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 40.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zone 3 foram zone, Bird Spring Formation, Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)

• ~860 m stratigraphically above base of exposed section, ~210 m stratigraphically above base of unit 3. East side of main ridge near northeast end of Striped Butte, elevation ~1280 m

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collected by P. Stone in 1979; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: C. H. Stevens and P. Stone. 2007. The Pennsylvanian-Early Permian Bird Spring carbonate shelf, southeastern California: fusulinid biostratigraphy, paleogeographic evolution, and tectonic implications. Geological Society of America Special Paper 429:1-82 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129200: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 21.06.2012

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