SJS-1309k, Fort Rock, Big Flat (Permian of the United States)

Where: Oregon (44.0° N, 119.5° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 38.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Cisuralian (298.9 - 273.0 Ma)

• Cobble in Brisbois Member of Vester Formation. Brisbois Member is dated as Carnian by rare ammonoids but cobbles have Carboniferous or Permian ages.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP, USNM

• Slides of all holotypes are housed in the collections of the U.S. National Museum and bear a USNM number as well as a C number. Slides of other figured specimens, as well as all samples including the holotypes, are retained in the University of California Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley.

Primary reference: M. K. Nestell and C. H. Stevens. 2013. Mixed Tethyan and McCloud Belt rugose corals and fusulinids in an Upper Triassic conglomerate, central Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 87:909-921 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150741: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
? Yokoyamaella oregonensis n. sp. Nestell and Stevens 2013 horn coral