Plate 7 From United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 167

Lower Triassic Ammonoids Of North America

By James Perrin Smith


Ammonoids from the Lower Triassic UnionWash Formation, Union Wash, Inyo County, California. "1-4 Prophingites austini; side, front, and rear views and septum of the type specimen. 5-25 Juvenites dieneri; 5-6 side and rear views; 7-9 side and front views and septum; 10-13 side, front and rear views and septum of the type specimen; 14 inside view of part of the body chamber broken from the specimen shown in Figures 10-13; 15-18 side, front and rear views and septum of an adolescent specimen, diameter 9.5 millimeters; 19-21 side, front, and rear views of an adolescent specimen, showing the shell; 22-25 side, front, and rear views and septum of a larval specimen having a diameter of 2.6 millimeters. Specimens 26-33 Xenodiscus marcoui; 26 side view; 27-28 side view and cross section of a broken whorl; 29-31 side view, cross section, and septum; 32-33 side and front views of an adolescent specimen."

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