New Pass Mine (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Nevada (39.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 43.0° W)
When: lower Member (Augusta Mountain Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
• Coarse grained bioclastic calcarenites
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 100454: 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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| Foraminifera | |
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? Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
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Endothyridae indet. Brady 1884 | |
| Rhodophyceae | |
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Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Elysastraea "sp. A" Laube 1865 stony coral | |
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Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral | |
| Hydrozoa | |
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Cassianastraea (cf. Cassianastraea) reussi Laube 1865 | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
| Echinoidea | |
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
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Allocosmia sp. Cossmann 1897 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nuculidae indet. Gray 1824 nut clam | |
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Actinodontophoridae indet. Newell 1969 clam | |
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Cardinia sp. Agassiz 1841 clam | |
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Megalodontidae indet. Morris 1853 clam | |
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Myalinidae indet. Frech 1891 clam | |
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Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
"Lima (cf. Lima) striata" = Plagiostoma striatum, "Limatulella sp." = Limaria
"Lima (cf. Lima) striata" = Plagiostoma striatum Schlotheim 1820 file clam
"Limatulella sp." = Limaria Link 1807 file clam | |
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Pectinoidea indet. Rafinesque 1815 scallop | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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? Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 | |