USGS loc. 17294-PC, Panamint Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Hunt and Mabey loc. F-20

Where: Inyo County, California (36.5° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 46.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rest Spring Formation, Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, red limestone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Brachiopods, etc., from crumbly limestone and red-bed unit, about 800 ft thick; overlies light-gray crinoidal limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. B. Hunt in 1958

Primary reference: C. B. Hunt and D. R. Mabey. 1966. Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 494-A:A1-A162 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226318: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 29.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
? Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae