ammonites
Stewart Valley (Scudder collection) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Nevada (38.6° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 114.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barstovian (16.0 - 13.6 Ma)

• Late Barstovian, ca. 14-14.5 Ma

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, gray mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Harvey I. Scudder in 1970-1980; reposited in the CAS

• Collected in 1970s and 1980s

Primary reference: O. E. Heie. 2006. Fossil aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) from Canadian Cretaceous amber and from the Miocene of Nevada. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37:91-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123213: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.01.2012

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