Pilot Mountains locality MC unit 5 (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Nevada (38.4° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 54.2° W)
When: lower Member (Luning Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• 4.3 m thick
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, pyritic, gray limestone
• Limestone, dark-gray, thin-bedded, reefoid; pyrite common
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. D. Stanley, Jr. 1979. Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 65:1-68 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100396: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 09.12.2010, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
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Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral | |
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"Montlivaltia" sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
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Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral | |
| Hydrozoa | |
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Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890 | |
| unclassified | |
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
| Brachiopoda | |
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |