ammonites
Sheep Creek, Caribou County (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Idaho (42.9° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 34.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinwoody Formation, Griesbachian (252.3 - 251.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: K.W. Ciriacks. 1963. Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(1):1-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105403: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.02.2011

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