Gabel Canyon (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.0° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° S, 53.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• unnamed shale unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and M. A. Murphy. 1983. Gabelia, a new Late Devonian lyssakid protosponge from the Roberts Mountains, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 57(4):797-803 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111785: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Gabelia pedunculus n. gen. n. sp.
Gabelia pedunculus n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Murphy 1983 glass sponge