USNM 17249. Horse Creek Valley Quadrangle. Northern Simpson Park Range.: Eifelian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
? Mourlonia hoffmannae n. sp. Blodgett and Johnson 1992
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras (Platyceras) trojani n. sp. Blodgett and Johnson 1992
20 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Eureka
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 116.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.7° South, 77.3° West (Wright 2013)
Altitude:6830 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
Stage: Eifelian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
Key time interval: Eifelian Conodont zone:  Tortodus australis
Age range of interval: 393.3 - 387.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Denay Limestone
Local section:Simpsons Park Local bed:16
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Conodont zone: australis. Faunal Interval 16.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Also known as:J12-2
Database number:44127
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-01 14:32:58 Last modified:2014-12-09 21:24:33
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-01 14:32:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

255. R. B. Blodgett and J. G. Johnson. 1992. Early Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Gastropods of Central Nevada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 222:85-139 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]