Favret Canyon HB 161, Augusta Mountains (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (40.1° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 41.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: shoshonensis ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Bucher. 1992. Ammonoids of the Shoshonensis Zone (Middle Anisian, Middle Triassic) from northwestern Nevada (USA). Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 135:425-465 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113670: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 04.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Balatonitidae
Balatonites shoshonensis Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Favreticeras rieberi Bucher 1992 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites densistriatus n. sp. Bucher 1992 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Constrigymnites robertsi Bucher 1992 ceratite