McCoy Mine HB 157A, New Pass Range (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.9° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 41.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Acrochordiceras hyatti ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Hadleyi subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. Bucher. 1992. Ammonoids of the Hyatti Zone and the Anisian transgression in the Star Peak Group, Northwestern Nevada, USA. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:137-166 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112774: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 16.07.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Acrochordiceratidae
Acrochordiceras hyatti2 Meek 1877 ceratite
Only HB 157 given
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Nicholsites newpassensis Bucher 1992 ceratite
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Magnigondolella nebuchadnezzari1 Golding and Orchard 2018 conodont