UCMP B-6209, Water Canyon (Permian of the United States)

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

• Limestone, medium-grained; medium gray, weathering medium gray; beds 12

•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
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
"Caninia hanseni" = Pseudozaphrentoides hanseni
"Caninia hanseni" = Pseudozaphrentoides hanseni Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral