D 973 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 638

Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.7° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 87.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: M? brachiopod zone, Pogonip Group, Ibexian (488.3 - 471.8 Ma)

• Ibexian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate ramp, above wave base
• irregularly laminated; fine-grained; bioclastic; nodular-weathering

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 104363: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"Gastropod"
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Palliseria sp. Wilson 1924 snail
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail