D1563 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 58

Where: Clark County, Nevada (37.3° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 83.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Antelope Valley Formation), Rangerian (470.0 - 470.3 Ma)

• Whiterockian; Rangerian. PJW: Was Zone N?, but Zone N is post-Rangerian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate platform
• silty; coarsely laminated; resistant

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr.

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1970. Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 639:1-99 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104409: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011, edited by Melanie Hopkins

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditiidae indet. Jones 1856 ostracod
"Lepeditiid"
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus sunbloodensis Tremblay and Westrop 1991 trilobite