SJS-913, Conglomerate Mesa (Permian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (36.5° N, 117.7° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 40.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 9 Member (Santa Rosa Flat Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• isolated submarine uplift offshore from the main part of the Cordilleran carbonate shelf

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. H. Stevens and P. Stone. 2009. New Permian durhaminid cerioid corals from east-central California. Journal of Paleontology 83(6):946-953 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93294: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Durhaminidae
Pararachnastraea delicata n. sp. Stevens and Stone 2009 horn coral