Where: Inyo County, California (36.9° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 85.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anomalorthis brachiopod zone, Badger Flat Formation (Mazourka Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• starting in the Anomalorthis zone and possibly extending into the Rhysostrophia zone; Was Mazourka, but now Badger Flat

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by J. W. Durham in 1953

Primary reference: R. L. Langenheim, Jr., J. A. Barnes, K. C. Delise, W. A. Ross, and J. M. Stanton. 1956. Middle and Upper(?) Ordovician Rocks of Independence Quadrangle, California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 40(9):2081-2097 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119483: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.10.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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