Where: Nevada (39.0° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 38.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ferguson Mountain Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• "Coral bed" 330 feet stratigraphically above fault bounding the knob of B-6197 to northeast.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. C. Wilson and R. L. Langenheim, Jr. 1962. Rugose and tabulate corals from Permian rocks in the Ely Quadrangle, White Pine County, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 36:495-520 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120692: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Syringopora mccutcheonae" = Neomultithecopora mccutcheonae
"Syringopora mccutcheonae" = Neomultithecopora mccutcheonae Wilson and Langenheim 1962 tabulate coral | |
"Thysanophyllum princeps" = Protowentzelella cystosa, "Sciophyllum mulleri n. sp." = Protowentzelella cystosa, "Ptolemaia ftatateeta" = Kleopatrina ftatateeta
"Thysanophyllum princeps" = Protowentzelella cystosa Dobrolyubova 1936 horn coral
"Sciophyllum mulleri n. sp." = Protowentzelella cystosa Dobrolyubova 1936 horn coral
"Ptolemaia ftatateeta" = Kleopatrina ftatateeta McCutcheon and Wilson 1961 horn coral | |
"Diphyphyllum connorsensis" = Tschussovskenia connorsensis
"Diphyphyllum connorsensis" = Tschussovskenia connorsensis Easton 1960 horn coral | |
""Stereostylus" sp." = Lophophyllidium
""Stereostylus" sp." = Lophophyllidium Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
"Eastonoides elyensis n. sp." = Petalaxis elyensis, "Lithostrotionella brokawi n. sp." = Petalaxis elyensis
"Eastonoides elyensis n. sp." = Petalaxis elyensis Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral
"Lithostrotionella brokawi n. sp." = Petalaxis elyensis Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral | |