ammonites
Diamond Springs, Unit 56 (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.9° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 36.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• Lower-Middle Leonardian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• Sandstone and limestone turbidites
• Matrix of silt-sized calcareous fragments and some pellets

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. A. Ross and J. R. P. Ross. 1987. Lower Permian bryozoans, Diamond Range, Nevada. In J. R. P. Ross (ed.), Bryozoa: Present and Past 237-244 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116810: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2011

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