Where: Wyoming (43.3° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 32.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tosi Member (Phosphoria Formation), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• Davydov et al. 2017 dated an ash bed in the upper Meade Peak Member at 260.57 ± 0.07 / 0.14 / 0.31 Ma, indicating that the Meade Peak is as young as uppermost Capitanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J.E. Smedley in 1950

Primary reference: I. G. Sohn. 1954. Ostracoda from the Permian of the Glass Mountains, Texas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 264-A:1-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117947: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2011

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