S-1945, Ship Mountains (Permian of the United States)

Where: San Bernardino County, California (34.5° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 39.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bird Spring Formation, Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• S-1945. Upper part of member 4, Bird Spring Formation, from float stratigraphically just below S-1948

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collected by C. H. Stevens and P. Stone in 2003

Collection methods: surface (float), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. H. Stevens and P. Stone. 2007. The Pennsylvanian-Early Permian Bird Spring carbonate shelf, southeastern California: fusulinid biostratigraphy, paleogeographic evolution, and tectonic implications. Geological Society of America Special Paper 429:1-82 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129034: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 20.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae