Also known as Department of Geology, University of California, Los Angeles, locality 6058-60
Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.9° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 46.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Unit 60 Member (Moleen Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)
• This fauna is judged to be Late Chester (Late Mississippian) in age and is assigned to the upper part of the Rhipidomella nevadensis Assemblage Zone of Sadlick (1954).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray, silty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. D. Mount. 1973. A new species of Straparollus (Archaeogastropoda) from the Mississippian of Nevada. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 72(2):111-112 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77065: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Paladin sp. Weller 1936 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita cf. subquadrata Hall 1858 | |
Strophomenata | |
Scaphopoda | |
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopinna cf. consimilis oyster | |
Aviculopecten cf. affinis Walcott 1884 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) sp. de Montfort 1808 snail | |
Straparollus (Euomphalus) pancakensis n. sp. Mount 1973 snail | |
Blastoidea | |
Pentremites sp. Say 1820 blastoid | |
Conodonta | |
Gnathodus muricatus conodont
Streptognathodus unicornis conodont | |
"Spathognathodus cf. minutus" = Hindeodus minutus
"Spathognathodus cf. minutus" = Hindeodus minutus Ellison 1941 conodont | |
Cavusgnathus spathus conodont
Cavusgnathus lautus Gunnell 1933 conodont
Cavusgnathus gigantus Gunnell 1933 conodont | |
Scyphozoa | |
Paraconularia sp. jellyfish |