Also known as Tonto Creek

Where: Gila County, Arizona (34.3° N, 111.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° S, 42.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naco Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• "Middle Pennsylvanian... Desmoinesian, and probably early Desmoinesian" based on fusulinids

•from the "beta member" spanning the equivalent of "bed 18 through 23" in a nearby measured section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, muddy, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Konecny, S. Konecny

• Northern Arizona University collection except for the holotype of Paraconularia kohli, which at Arizona State University

•"a favorite collecting site for paleontology classes and amateur collectors for many years"

Primary reference: D.C. Brew and S.S. Beus. 1976. A Middle Pennsylvanian fauna from the Naco Formation near Kohl Ranch, Central Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 50:888-906 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90772: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.08.2009, edited by Trisha Wolfe

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