Where: Pershing County, Nevada (40.1° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 41.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Bed HB 0, basal Fossil Hill Member. Base of the middle Anisian (Mactaggarti subzone).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 1993; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: O. Rieppel, R. Kindlimann, and H. Bucher. 1996. A new fossil fish fauna from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of north-western Nevada. In G. Arratia, G. Viohl (eds.), Mesozoic Fishes - Systematics and Paleoecology 501-512 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93564: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish | |
? Ptycholepis sp. Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish | |
Saurichthys sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish | |
Birgeria sp. Stensiƶ 1919 | |
Actinopteri | |
Colobodus sp. Agassiz 1843 | |
? Paralepidotus sp. Stolley 1919 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Parvidiabolus aff. onvexus elasmobranch
Complanicorona aff. rugosimargines Johns 1997 elasmobranch
Labascicorona sp. Johns 1997 elasmobranch | |
? Palaeospinax sp. Egerton 1872 elasmobranch | |
Mucrovenator minimus n. gen. n. sp.
Mucrovenator minimus n. gen. n. sp. Cuny et al. 2001 elasmobranch | |
"Polyacrodus bucheri n. sp." = Omanoselache bucheri
"Polyacrodus bucheri n. sp." = Omanoselache bucheri Cuny et al. 2001 elasmobranch | |
Acrodus cuneocostatus n. sp., Acrodus cf. oreodontus, Acrodus spitzbergensis, Acrodus cf. vermicularis, Palaeobates sp., Palaeobates cf. shastensis
Acrodus cuneocostatus n. sp. Cuny et al. 2001 elasmobranch
Acrodus cf. oreodontus Wemple 1906 elasmobranch
Acrodus spitzbergensis Hulke 1873 elasmobranch
Acrodus cf. vermicularis Stensio 1921 elasmobranch
Palaeobates sp. elasmobranch
Palaeobates cf. shastensis Bryant 1914 elasmobranch | |
? Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Polyacrodus "sp. A" Jaekel 1889 elasmobranch
Polyacrodus "sp. B" Jaekel 1889 elasmobranch
Polyacrodus tregoi n. sp. Rieppel et al. 1996 elasmobranch |