Above USGS 7601-SD, Spotted Range (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Rye County, Nevada (36.7° N, 115.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 56.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cyrtospirifer brachiopod zone, Devils Gate Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• clayey limestone unit at the top of formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse-grained, gray limestone

• clayey limestone unit

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. H. Poole in 1966; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1971. A new late Devonian gastropod and its bearing on problems of open coiling and septation. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 3:231-241 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156526: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae