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Grizzly Creek, Caribou County

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42.96000, -111.81500View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Grizzly Creek, Caribou County is a fossil collection site in Idaho, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Park City Formation, dated to the Kungurian (283.3–274.4 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Astartella subquadrata.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Park City
Geologic interval
Kungurian
Age
283.3–274.4 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Sect. 30, T. 5 S., R. 40. E.

Fossils found here

Astartella subquadrata
Bivalvia · Astartidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 125785 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 42.96000, -111.81500

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