Where: Wyoming (42.7° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 32.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hindeodus parvus conodont zone, Dinwoody Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• 8 cm-thick bed limestone, 4 m above the top of the Permian Ervay Member. Assigned to isarcica zone, but using broad conception of isarcica that encompassed H. parvus. H. parvus zone according to Paull & Paull (1994).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Donald Boyd in 1983; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson, D. W. Boyd, and B. R. Wardlaw. 1985. Redescription of Bellerophon bittneri (Gastropoda: Triassic) from Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 23:99-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121326: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2011

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