Also known as Sando et al. Trout Creek Loc.50

Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (43.5° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 35.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ranchester Member (Amsden Formation), Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• Dolomite within about 50 ft of base of Tensleep Sandstone. "Pennsylvanian (Morrowan?)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, lenticular, concretionary, gray, yellow, sandy, cherty/siliceous dolomite and green, red shale

Reposited in the USGS

• "Collected by H.A. Tourtelot, 1947. Fossils listed by Tourtelot, 1953, table 2."

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 5724: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.11.1999

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