Also known as Upper Athyris fauna, Upper Coralville Fm., Buffalo Quarry, Scott County, Iowa

Where: Scott County, Iowa (41.6° N, 90.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 36.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Coralville Formation (Cedar Valley Group), Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Late Givetian, Strophodonta plicata Zone.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

Primary reference: J. Day. 1988. The brachiopod succession of the Late Givetian-Frasnian of Iowa. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume III. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 303-325 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35484: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 17.12.2003, edited by Alycia Stigall

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