Also known as Reef 2366. USGS D 1973 CO. Was: USGS 1973-CO-D. Meiklejohn Peak mud-mound, Bare Mountain

Where: Nye County, Nevada (36.9° N, 116.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 82.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orthidiella other zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Anomalorthis Zone, Kanoshian, middle Whiterockian.

•18-20m above base of bioherm and 38-40m above base of Antelope Valley Fm.

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•Ross et al. (1994) give this as Orthidiella (pg. 170, Oav 5).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. J. Ross, Jr. 1972. Fossils from the Ordovician bioherm at Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 685 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14232: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Rich Krause on 28.05.2002, edited by Pete Wagner and Uta Merkel

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