Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.4° N, 115.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 40.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bird Spring Group, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 968 m above 1264. The Permian part of the Lee Canyon section is 1,616 m thick. As first recognized by Barosh (1968), it has three lithologic units: a lower limestone sequence (238 m thick), a central sandstone sequence with some thin limestone beds (1,037 m thick), and an upper sandstone-limestone sequence (341 m thick). The middle sandstone sequence lies entirely within the Zone of Pseudoschwagerina. The limestone at the top of the predominately sandstone unit (at this locality) was correlated by Baroh (1986) with the "Rib Hill" Sandstone of the Egan Range, White Pine County, Nevada. The loc. 1268 limestone and overlying thin-bedded sandstones were considered by Barosh (1986) to be equivalent to the Arcturus Formation of the Egan Range.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.C. Wilson, L. Walters in 1969, 1970, 1975; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Author notes large fusulinids and masses of fasciculate corals.

Primary reference: E. C. Wilson. 1991. Permian corals from the Spring Mountains, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 65(5):727-741 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61685: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 22.06.2006

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