Coyote Canyon HB 56, northern Humboldt Range (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (40.5° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 41.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Silberlingites mulleri ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Prida Formation), Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: H. Bucher. 1989. Lower Anisian ammonoids from the northern Humboldt Range (northwestern Nevada, USA) and their bearing upon the Lower-Middle Triassic boundary. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 82:945-1002 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112778: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 16.07.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Khvalynitidae
Metadagnoceras youngi n. sp. Bucher 1989 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Sibiritidae
Silberlingites tregoi n. sp. Bucher 1989 ceratite
Silberlingites mulleri n. sp. Bucher 1989 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Grambergia sp. Popov 1961 ceratite
Groenlandites pridaense n. sp. Bucher 1989 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Danubitidae
Paradanubites crassicostatus n. sp. Bucher 1989 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Acrochordiceratidae
Paracrochordiceras cf. americanum McLearn 1946 ceratite
Paracrochordiceras mclearni Bucher 1989 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Caucasites nicholsi Bucher 1989 ceratite
Gymnites billingsi n. sp. Bucher 1989 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Sageceratidae
Sageceras cf. walteri Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
 Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae
Ussurites sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite