D1765 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 124

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.6° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 79.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Ibexian; Middle Member?

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate platform
• resistant; cherty; resistant ledges interbedded w/weker nodular beds, chert common to abundant

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 104470: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Eocrinoidea
  - Rhipidocystidae
? Rhipidocystidae indet. Jaekel 1901
"Rhipidocystid"
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
 Orthida - Anomalorthidae
Anomalorthis lonensis Walcott 1884
Anomalorthis nevadensis Ulrich and Cooper 1938