Pilot Mountains locality DC unit 26 (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)

• 6.6 m thick

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Limestone, reefoid, medium-bedded

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 100435: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 09.12.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham and Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha sp.
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Ceriostella sp.1, Ceriostella martini2
Ceriostella sp.1 Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral
Ceriostella martini2 Smith 1927 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Elysastraea sp., "Thecosmilia" sp.
Elysastraea sp. Laube 1865 stony coral
"Thecosmilia" sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Palaeastraea descussata
1Kiessling 2014; 2Roniewicz and Stanley 2013