Brazer Dolomite member 1, NE Utah (Carboniferous of the United States)
Where: Utah (40.2° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° S, 49.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: 1 Member (Brazer Dolomite Formation), Kinderhookian (360.7 - 353.8 Ma)
• "Miss., upper Kinderhook to lower Osage"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; phosphatic dolomite
• "dolomite, fine with scattered coarse bioclasts; thin bedded cherty; dark gray- up to 12 ft of phosphatic and argillaceous ls at some localities. open shelf, BA5."
Primary reference: J. J. Sepkoski Jr. 1998. Rates of speciation in the fossil record. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 353(1366):315-326 [J. Sepkoski/M. Sommers/A. Clement] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 547: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.01.1999