ammonites
Toroweap Valley West, USGS 22977-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Arizona (36.2° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 43.6° 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: marine; lithified, brown, gray, calcareous, cherty/siliceous conglomerate

• Conglomerate, light-brownish-gray; contains abundant fossils; weathers brown. Gravel: chert; pale-reddish-purple, grayish-red mudstone, dark-reddish-brown; limestone, light gray, subangular to rounded; common size range 0.13-0.25 in.; maximum 0.5 in.

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 42712: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 04.08.2004

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