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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Wellington
- Geologic interval
- Artinskian
- Age
- 290.1–283.3 Ma
- Depositional environment
- lacustrine indet.
- Tectonic setting
- cratonic basin
- Recorded occurrences
- 26
Salty playa lake. The lower layer shows sedimentational and organic features which suggest that it was laid down close to the shore and that most of its biota was washed into the lake. The matrix and biota of the middle layer, which is highly irregular and characterized by pink partings, were probably transported to the water by violent dust storms. The upper layer is highly argillaceous, and was deposited under strongly saline conditions; insects are rare but they are very well preserved.
SW1/4 of NW1/4, Sec. 2, T21N, R1W.
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 104824 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 36.32700, -97.28100
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