Plate 10 From United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 167

Lower Triassic Ammonoids Of North America

By James Perrin Smith


Ammonoids from the Lower Triassic Union Wash Formation, Union Wash, Inyo County, California. "Figures 1-23 Owenites koeneni; 1-4 side, front and rear views and septum of the type specimen; 5-6 side and front views of a specimen showing only the body chamber in the last volution; 7-10 side, front, and rear views and septum of adolescent specimen, showing the transition from goniatite to ceratitic stage, diameter 15 millimeters; 11-13 side, front and rear vews of an adolescent specimen, showing only the goniatitic stage, diatmeter 9 millimeters; 14 septum from the same specimen; 15-17 side, front and rear views of small adolescent specimen, diameter 5 millimeters; 18-19 left side and septum of larval specimen, showing Nannites stage, diamter 2.4 millimeters; 20-23 side, front, and rear views and septum of larval shell showing the Nannites stage, diamter 1.9 millimeters."

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