SJS-1217 (2-3), Conglomerate Mesa (Permian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (36.5° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 39.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 10 Member (Santa Rosa Flat Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Consists of 22 sublocalities at different horizons in a 40-m-thick section of unit 10. Locality numbers SJS-1217 (1–2 m, 5 m, 7 m, 8–9 m, and 32 m)

•indicate meters above base of section. Locality numbers SJS-1217 (1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, and 5-4)

•indicate the following: the first number in parentheses (before the dash) indicates relative stratigraphic position (from 5 at the base to 1 near the top); the second number refers to individual specimens at each horizon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• isolated submarine uplift offshore from the main part of the Cordilleran carbonate shelf

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. H. Stevens and P. Stone. 2009. New Permian durhaminid cerioid corals from east-central California. Journal of Paleontology 83(6):946-953 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118439: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Durhaminidae
Cordillerastraea inyoensis n. sp. Stevens and Stone 2009 horn coral