Also known as Sando et al. Wiggins Fork Loc.48

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 39.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anthracospirifer welleri - shawi zone, Horseshoe Member (Amsden Formation), Chesterian to Chesterian (335.5 - 321.8 Ma)

• Dolomite 39 - 43 ft above top of Darwin Member. "Carlinia amsdeniana Subzone. Late Mississippian (Chesterian)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, red, silty, sandy, calcareous shale and gypsiferous, shelly/skeletal limestone

Reposited in the YPM

• "Collected by J.D. Love, 1937? Fossils listed by Love, 1939, p.28, Burk, 1954, p.4, Shaw, 1955, p.62, fig.1, and Keefer and Van Lieu, 1966, table 6."

Primary reference: W. J. Sando, M., J.r. Gordon, and J. T. Dutro. 1975. Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 848A:1-83 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5723: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.11.1999

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