UCMP D-5533, Charcoal Ovens section (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.0° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 36.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Loray Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone

• The rocks containing this community are calcareous siltstones, mudstones, argillaceous wackestones, and packstones. SOme beds show mudcracks and one shows possible salt-crystal casts.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Yancey, L. Plas, M. Kaasa; reposited in the UCMP

• Ostracods are also included in this list, but are not counted.

Primary reference: T. E. Yancey and C.H. Stevens. 1981. Early Permian fossil communities in northeastern Nevada and northwestern Utah. In J.Gray, A.J. Boucot, and W.B.N. Berry (eds.), Communitites of the Past 243-269 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10421: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 16.04.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp.
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp.
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Araeonematidae
Yunnania sp.
Yunnania sp. Mansuy 1912 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Meekospiridae
Meekospira sp.
Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Goniasma sp.
Goniasma sp. Tomlin 1930 snail