Also known as SF 600
Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.3° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 85.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pseudocybele nasuta trilobite zone, Ninemile Formation, Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)
• Ibexian, Zone J
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by J. Ross, Jr.
Collection methods: surface (float),
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 104355: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Ptyocephalus sp. Agassiz 1843 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Archaeorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 |