Where: Nevada (40.5° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 41.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: hyatti ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Prida Formation), Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Mctaggarti subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N.J. Silberling; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: N. J. Silberling and K. M. Nichols. 1982. Middle Triassic Molluscan Fossils of Biostratigraphic Significance from the Humboldt Range, Northwestern Nevada. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1207 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 112787: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 16.07.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hollandites aff. voiti Oppel 1863 ceratite
Anagymnotoceras sp. McLearn 1946 ceratite | |
"Cuccoceras bonaevistae" = Platycuccoceras bonaevistae
"Cuccoceras bonaevistae" = Platycuccoceras bonaevistae Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite | |
Intornites ? mctaggarti McLearn 1946 ceratite | |
Alanites mulleri Silberling and Nichols 1982 ceratite |