Where: Washington County, Utah (37.1° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 39.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Virgin Member (Moenkopi Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: silty limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Collected by PDT from throughout locality HC5, during 2005 before the main collection in 2006.

Primary reference: A. J. McGowan, A. B. Smith, and P. D. Taylor. 2009. Faunal diversity, heterogeneity and body size in the Early Triassic: testing post-extinction paradigms in the Virgin Limestone of Utah, USA. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 56:859-872 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63385: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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