Where: Pershing County, Nevada (40.1° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 41.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-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: slope; lithified, brown, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collection methods: quarrying
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 107492: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.04.2011, edited by Christina Feng
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Nevadisculites taylori Bucher 1988 ceratite | |
Platycuccoceras favretense Bucher 1988 ceratite | |
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