KV63-20. Southwest slope of Lone Mountain.: Eifelian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Ptychomphalina sp. Fischer 1885
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras (Prosigaretus) sp. Conrad 1840
1 specimen
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:7320 feet
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
Stage: Eifelian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
Key time interval: Eifelian Conodont zone:  Tortodus kockelianus
Age range of interval: 393.3 - 387.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Nevada Formation:Denay Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: Conodont zone: kockelianus. Faunal Interval 17L.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Also known as:2900 ft. SE of VABM 7936
Database number:44135
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-01 15:22:44 Last modified:2018-08-23 14:46:23
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-01 15:22:44
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]