Where: Inyo County, California (36.8° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 65.8° W)

When: Vaughn Gulch Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 393.3 Ma)

• beds of Late Silurian or Early Devonian age within 20 feet of top of Vaughn Gulch Limestone.

Environment/lithology: nodular limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 226660: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.07.2022

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