ammonites
USGS 7877 green (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Idaho (42.6° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° N, 35.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thaynes Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lower part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. H. Girty. 1927. Descriptions of new species of Carboniferous and Triassic fossils (from southeastern Idaho). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 152:411-446 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106216: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.03.2011

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