Middle Cedar Creek, Locality 2
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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Supai
- Geologic interval
- Kungurian
- Age
- 283.3–274.4 Ma
- Depositional environment
- shallow subtidal indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 50
Exposed along Middle Cedar Creek 4.8–6.4 km northeast of junction with East Cedar Creek, sec. 9, T6N, R21E, Gila Co., Arizona, Round Top Mountain 7.59 quadrangle. Within Section 4 of Winters (1963)
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 52898 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 33.93900, -110.10700
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