Also known as Reef 261

Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 43.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McCloud Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• zone A of McCloud Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. Watkins and E. C. Wilson. 1989. Paleoecologic and biogeographic significance of the biostromal organism Palaeoaplysina in the Lower Permian McCloud Limestone, Eastern Klamath Mountains, California. Palaios 4:181-192 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75627: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.10.2007

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