Where: Nevada (39.2° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 36.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pequop Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• 730' (223 m) below base of Loray Fm
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. Yancey, L. Plas, M. Kaasa
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: T. E. Yancey. 1978. Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves. Bulletins of American Paleontology 74(303):257-367 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120956: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
Costellarina plasi Yancey 1978 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cleiothyridina ciriacksi Cooper and Grant 1976
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Composita mexicana Hall 1857 | |
Reticulariina sp. Fredericks 1916 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculavus sp. Tschernyschev 1943 nut clam | |
Selenimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam | |
Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) politus Girty 1909 clam | |
Rostroconchia | |
Arceodomus langenheimi Wilson 1970 |