D 711 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 156

Where: Nye County, Nevada (37.1° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 82.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: M? brachiopod zone, Unit I Member (Antelope Valley Formation), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Whiterockian. Unit I of Johnson and Hibbard, 1957

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate platform
• medium-bedded; cherty; much fine Qtz sand, some large frosted grains

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr.

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. J. Ross, Jr. and C. R. Longwell. 1964. Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1180-C:C1-C101 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104297: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"Bryozoan"
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Nanorthidae
"Orthambonites cf. swanensis" = Shoshonorthis swanensis
"Orthambonites cf. swanensis" = Shoshonorthis swanensis Ulrich and Cooper 1938