El Dorado Canyon, near Dayton (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Washoe County, Nevada (39.2° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 56.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• "Monotis beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.D. Whitney

• 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 142644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonomya daytonensis n. sp." = Posidonia daytonensis
"Posidonomya daytonensis n. sp." = Posidonia daytonensis Gabb 1864 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Clydonitidae
""Goniatites" laevidorsatus" = Clydonites laevidorsatus
""Goniatites" laevidorsatus" = Clydonites laevidorsatus Hauer 1860 ceratite