Where: Nevada (40.5° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° N, 45.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smelser Pass Member (Augusta Mountain Formation), Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)
• Stratigraphic data from Silberling & Nichols (1982)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Richard Homfray in 1863
• Repository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (according to Silberling & Nichols, 1982)
Primary reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Triassic fossils of California and the adjacent territories. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:19-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142612: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Ammonites homfrayi n. sp." = Sirenites homfrayi
"Ammonites homfrayi n. sp." = Sirenites homfrayi Gabb 1864 ceratite | |
"Ammonites billingsianus n. sp." = Mojsvarites agenor
"Ammonites billingsianus n. sp." = Mojsvarites agenor Muenster 1834 ammonite |