Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.6° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 42.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Diamond Peak Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• beds gradational between overlying Ely Formation and Diamond Peak Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1972. A new hexactinellid sponge from the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Diamond Peak Formation in eastern Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 46(2):266-270 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120998: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.11.2011

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