Also known as UCLA loc. 4679

Where: Plumas County, California (40.0° N, 120.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 76.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Montgomery Limestone Formation, Caradoc to Caradoc (458.4 - 443.7 Ma)

• lenticular unit of Montgomery Limestone in the Shoo Fly Complex, undiff. Upper Ordovician

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. McMath, C. Durrell, and E. Legan in 1955; 1956; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, A. W. Potter, and N. K. Anderson. 2008. Ordovician sponges from the Montgomery Limestone, Taylorsville area, northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Bulletin of Geosciences 83(3):299-310 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119887: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.11.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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