Buena Vista district, Humboldt mining region (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (40.5° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 41.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gorham Blake

• Repository: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP)

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 142626: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
"Myacites humboldtensis n. sp." = Pleuromya humboldtensis
"Myacites humboldtensis n. sp." = Pleuromya humboldtensis Gabb 1864 clam
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
"Nautilus whitneyi n. sp." = Grypoceras whitneyi
"Nautilus whitneyi n. sp." = Grypoceras whitneyi Gabb 1864 nautiloid
 Orthoceratoidea -
"Orthoceratites blakei n. sp." = Orthoceras blakei
"Orthoceratites blakei n. sp." = Orthoceras blakei Gabb 1864