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)
• 206-213 feet below top of "Ely Limestone" in auxiliary traverse
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone
•to 18 inches thick; fretted surface; caninoid corals, spirifers, productids.
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 120699: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Caninia hanseni" = Pseudozaphrentoides hanseni
"Caninia hanseni" = Pseudozaphrentoides hanseni Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral |