D1609 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 118

Where: Nye County, Nevada (39.0° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 80.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: O? brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Whiterockian; no formal stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

• middle shelf
• laminated; less silty than above or below

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr.

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1970. Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 639:1-99 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104464: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
"small ostracode"
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
"Macrocyproides sp." = Bairdiocypridella
"Macrocyproides sp." = Bairdiocypridella Blumenstengel 1965 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Krausella sp. ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Leperditella sp. ostracod
medium to large sp.
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae