D1429 CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 460

Where: Nye County, Nevada (36.7° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 87.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: B? trilobite zone, Goodwin Formation (Pogonip Group), Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Ibexian; Barnes Unit 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified limestone

• carbonate ramp, above storm wave base
• irregularly laminated; cherty; silty, dolomitic in places, siliceous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr. H. B. Barnes

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross and H. B. Barnes. 1967. Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 523-D:D1-D4 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104645: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Bellefontia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite