Also known as (Cutler Formation) Halgaito Tongue

Where: San Juan County, Utah (37.2° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 36.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cutler Formation, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• "The known fossils from the Halgaito tongue of the Cutler Formation, with rare exceptions, were found in lenses of channel conglomerates or in cross-bedded sandstones immediately above, below, or at the lateral edges of such conglomerates."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; red sandstone and pebbly, gray, calcareous conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: P. P. Vaughn. 1962. Vertebrates from the Halgaito Tongue of the Cutler Formation, Permian of San Juan County, Utah. Journal of Paleontology 36(3):529-539 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13257: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 02.02.2002, edited by Bryan Gee

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