Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.2° N, 116.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 14.9° N, 122.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Antelope Valley Formation), Whiterockian (471.3 - 457.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: A. G. Harris, S. M. Bergström, R. L. Ethington and R. J. Ross. 1979. Aspects of Middle and Upper Ordovician Conodont Biostratigraphy of Carbonate Facies in Nevada and Southeast California and Comparison with Some Appalachian Successions. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 26(3):7-44 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210659: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Conodonta "Hyaline conodonts indet." Pander 1856 conodont | |
"Belodella nevadensis" = Ansella nevadensis
"Belodella nevadensis" = Ansella nevadensis Ethington and Schumacher 1969 conodont | |
Polyplacognathus rutriformis, "Polyplacognathus friendsvillensis" = Cahabagnathus friendsvillensis
Polyplacognathus rutriformis conodont
"Polyplacognathus friendsvillensis" = Cahabagnathus friendsvillensis Bergström 1971 conodont | |
Belodina monitorensis conodont
Panderodus spp. Ethington 1959 conodont |