Pilot Mountains locality DC unit 6 (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Nevada (38.4° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 54.3° W)
When: Luning Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• 8.2 m thick
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, fine-grained limestone
• Limestone, reefoid, thin, irregularly bedded and fine-grained
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 100420: 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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Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral | |
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"Thecosmilia" sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
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Elysastraea sp. Laube 1865 stony coral | |
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Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral | |
| unclassified | |
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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