Where: Inyo County, California (36.6° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 60.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hidden Valley Dolomite Formation, Helderbergian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• upper Hidden Valley Dolomite. This unit spans Late Silurian through Early Devonian, according to USGS online lexicon of stratigraphic names. Boucot states that this collection is of post-Lochkovian age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Abundances stated in text.

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1999. Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 549-591 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24870: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.08.2002

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