ammonites
CHS 1J-6, Buck Mountain Section (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.6° N, 115.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 36.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Riepetown Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.5 Ma)

• Dry Mountain "lithosome" near base of section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 89332: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives)