Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.0° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 53.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)
• unnamed shale unit
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and M. A. Murphy. 1983. Gabelia, a new Late Devonian lyssakid protosponge from the Roberts Mountains, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 57(4):797-803 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111785: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Gabelia pedunculus n. gen. n. sp.
Gabelia pedunculus n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Murphy 1983 glass sponge |