New Pass Mine unit 8 (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, gray limestone
• Limestone, thin-bedded, coralliferous, light0gray, fine to medium-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 100463: 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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Ceriostella sp. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998 stony coral | |
"Thamnastraea sp." = Thamnasteria
"Thamnastraea sp." = Thamnasteria LeSauvage 1823 stony coral | |