USC Loc. 340 - Connors Pass (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.0° N, 114.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 36.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcturus Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Upper 10 feet of 125 foot bluff.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: W. H. Easton. 1960. Permian corals from Nevada and California. Journal of Paleontology 34:570-583 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Kleopatrinidae
"Lithostrotion (Thysanophyllum) princeps" = Protowentzelella cystosa, "Lithostrotion (Lithostrotionella) dilatata n. sp." = Protowentzelella kunthi
"Lithostrotion (Thysanophyllum) princeps" = Protowentzelella cystosa Dobrolyubova 1936 horn coral
"Lithostrotion (Lithostrotionella) dilatata n. sp." = Protowentzelella kunthi Stuckenberg 1895 horn coral