PBDB Collection

IK-3. Ikes Canyon sponge beds, Toquima Range (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Nye County, Nevada (39.1° N, 116.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 81.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orthidiella brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Rangerian (470.0 - 470.3 Ma)

• Sponge beds occur at the boundary between the Orthidiella and Anomalorthis zones.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• uppermost slope of a carbonate platform or outer shelf

• wackestone/packstone/mudstone with shale interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. S. Bassler. 1927. A new early Ordovician sponge fauna. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 17(15):390-394 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119435: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.10.2011, edited by Pete Wagner and Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• trilobites, brachiopods, gastropods, and echinoderms reported to be present, but not listed

Show authors, comments, and common names

Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae	Hadrocystis pauli n. gen. n. sp.³ Hadrocystis pauli n. gen. n. sp.³
Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae	Plethoschisma grandis n. gen. n. sp.³, Deltacystis symmetricus n. gen. n. sp.³ Plethoschisma grandis n. gen. n. sp.³ Sprinkle 1974 Deltacystis symmetricus n. gen. n. sp.³ Sprinkle 1974
Parablastoidea - Blastocystidae	Parabolablastus elongatus⁵, ? Blastoidocrinus nevadensis⁴ Parabolablastus elongatus⁵ Sprinkle 1973 ? Blastoidocrinus nevadensis⁴ Sprinkle 1973
Trilobita
Phacopida - Pliomeridae	? Pseudomera nevadensis¹, Pseudomera barrandei¹ ? Pseudomera nevadensis¹ Walcott 1884 trilobite Pseudomera barrandei¹ Billings 1865 trilobite
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida - Archaeoscyphidae	Nevadocoelia grandis n. sp., Nevadocoelia wistae n. gen. n. sp., Nevadocoelia traini n. sp., Hesperocoelia typicalis n. gen. n. sp., Hesperocoelia undulata n. sp. Nevadocoelia grandis n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Nevadocoelia wistae n. gen. n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Nevadocoelia traini n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Hesperocoelia typicalis n. gen. n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Hesperocoelia undulata n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge
Lithistida - Streptosolenidae	Streptosolen nodosus n. sp.², Streptosolen occidentalis n. sp., Lissocoelia ramosa n. gen. n. sp., Verpaspongia nodosa n. gen. n. sp.² Streptosolen nodosus n. sp.² Johns 1994 demosponge Streptosolen occidentalis n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Lissocoelia ramosa n. gen. n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Verpaspongia nodosa n. gen. n. sp.² Johns 1994 demosponge
Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae	"Nevadocoelia pulchra n. sp." = Archaeoscyphia pulchra, Patellispongia oculata n. gen. n. sp., Patellispongia minutipora n. sp., Patellispongia clintoni n. sp., Anthaspidella traini n. sp., Anthaspidella clintoni n. sp., Calycocoelia typicalis n. gen. n. sp. "Nevadocoelia pulchra n. sp." = Archaeoscyphia pulchra Bassler 1927 demosponge Patellispongia oculata n. gen. n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Patellispongia minutipora n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Patellispongia clintoni n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Anthaspidella traini n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Anthaspidella clintoni n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge Calycocoelia typicalis n. gen. n. sp. Bassler 1927 demosponge

¹Holliday 1942; ²Johns 1994; ³Sprinkle 1974; ⁴Sprinkle 1973; ⁵Sprinkle and Sumrall 2008