Where: Washington County, Utah (37.3° N, 113.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 55.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carmel Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• On talus slope and cliff face of Member D of the Carmel Formation. An 40Ar/39Ar date of 166.3 +/- 0.8 million years (Kowallis et al., 1993) from sanidine crystals in an ash bed at the base of 'Member E' of Nielson... would place the upper part of the Carmel Formation, including the bryozoans, in the Bathonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. D. Taylor and M. A. Wilson. 1999. Middle Jurassic bryozoans from the Carmel formation of southwestern Utah. Journal of Paleontology 73(5):816-830 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78692: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 14.02.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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