Also known as Sando et al. Cherry Creek Loc.31

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.6° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 39.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anthracospirifer welleri-shawi zone, Horseshoe Member (Amsden Formation), Chesterian to Chesterian (335.5 - 321.8 Ma)

• Limestone 48 ft above base of Amsden Fm. "Carlinia amsdeniana Subzone, Late Mississippian (Chesterian)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, red, silty, sandy, calcareous shale and gypsiferous, shelly/skeletal limestone

Reposited in the UW

• "Collected by W.G. Bell, 1954. Fossils listed by Shaw and Bell, 1955, fig.1 and Shaw, 1955, p.62, fig.1"

Primary reference: W. J. Sando, M., J.r. Gordon, and J. T. Dutro. 1975. Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 848A:1-83 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5698: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.11.1999

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