Also known as Reef 3604

Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.7° N, 114.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 38.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bird Spring Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• The middle part of Bird Spring Formation, Early Artinskian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: Collected from same locality over 20 year period, starting in April-Nov 1964, then in 1966, and subsequently.

Primary reference: G. D. Webster and N. G. Lane. 2007. New Permian crinoids from the Battleship Wash patch reef in southern Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):951-965 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90756: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.08.2009, edited by Matthew Clapham

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