Where: Inyo County, California (36.7° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 71.3° W)

When: B other zone, Hidden Valley Dolomite Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• in lower part of Hidden Valley Dolomite. Silurian coral fauna.

Environment/lithology: nodular dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate, replaced with dolomite, replaced with silica

Collected by J. F. McAllister in 1956; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. W. Merriam. 1973. Silurian rugose corals of the central and southwest Great Basin. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 777:1-66 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226644: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.07.2022

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