ammonites
CHS 1K-7, Dry Mountain, Long Valley (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.6° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 36.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• About 1200 feet above base of formation. Base of Dry Mountain lithosome.

• 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 89334: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2009

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