Where: Idaho (42.2° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 35.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thaynes Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• "below the typical Meekoceras beds of the Aspen Range"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by John C. Merriam in 1903; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: H. M. Evans. 1904. A new cestraciont spine from the Lower Triassic of Idaho. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 3(18):397-402 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136684: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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