Where: Nevada (40.1° N, 117.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 24.6° N, 38.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nevadisculites taylori ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, massive limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Bucher. 1988. A new Middle Anisian (Middle Triassic) ammonoid zone from northwestern Nevada. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 81(3):723-762 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107491: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Acrochordiceras carolinae von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite | |
Nevadisculites smithi Bucher 1988 ceratite
Nevadisculites taylori Bucher 1988 ceratite | |
"Nicomedites tozeri" = Nicholsites tozeri, Eogymnotoceras thompsoni n. sp.
"Nicomedites tozeri" = Nicholsites tozeri Bucher 1988 ceratite
Eogymnotoceras thompsoni n. sp. Bucher 1988 ceratite | |
Platycuccoceras favretense Bucher 1988 ceratite |