UCMP B-6206, Water Canyon (Permian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.0° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° N, 36.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcturus Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 1024-1091 feet above base of Arcturus Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• Limestone, medium to coarse-grained; medium gray, weathering light gray; beds 1 to 3 feet thick; fasciculate corals, brachiopods, fusulinids.

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 120697: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Kleopatrinidae
"Orionastraea hudsoni n. sp." = Permastraea biseptata
"Orionastraea hudsoni n. sp." = Permastraea biseptata Dobrolyubova 1936 horn coral
 Stauriida - Durhaminidae
"Heritschioides hillae n. sp." = Sandolasma hillae
"Heritschioides hillae n. sp." = Sandolasma hillae Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral