D1585 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 80

Where: Clark County, Nevada (37.3° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 84.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: J? trilobite zone, Ninemile Formation, Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)

• Whiterockian; Blackhillsian; Was Antelope Valley Limestone Lower Member, but Zone J is Ninemile

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate platform
• Intraclasts; bioclastic

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 104431: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Goniotelina sp." = Acidiphorus
"Goniotelina sp." = Acidiphorus Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ptyocephalus sp. Agassiz 1843 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pseudomera sp. Holliday 1942 trilobite
Pseudocybele sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Hesperonomia cf. planidorsalis Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Hesperonomia cf. nemea Hall and Whitfield 1877