ammonites
Separation Canyon, USGS 25139-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Separation Canyon, collection 7 ft above base of formation

Where: Arizona (35.8° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 44.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Watahomigi Formation (Supai Group), Morrowan (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• The Watahomigi is comprised of three informal units: a lower slope unit, a middle cliff unit, and an upper slope unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, conglomeratic limestone and lithified, conglomeratic sandstone

• Conglomerate, dark-reddish-brown, forms thin, resistant ledge. Matrix: gray and reddish-brown sandstone to gray, granular limestone. Gravel: white and gray chert, white and red quartz; average diameters 0.25-0.5 in (maximum 1.5 in); angular to rounded, mostly subangular; very concentrated locally, elsewhere scattered; locally contains fossills.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: E. D. McKee. 1982. The Supai Group of the Grand Canyon. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1173 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42700: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 04.08.2004

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