Pilot Mountains locality MC unit 9 (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)
• 2.7 m thick
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
• Limestone, reefoid, fine-grained. "Thecosmila" in life position.
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 100398: 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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Hydrozoa | |
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
"Thecosmilia" sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral | |
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral |