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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Carolinites cf. killaryensis Stubblefield 1950 trilobite | |
Nileus aff. scrutator Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Endymionia cf. meeki Billings 1862 trilobite | |
Illaenus "sp. A" Dalman 1827 trilobite
Illaenus "sp. D" Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Kawina wilsoni n. sp., Xystocrania pyriformis
Kawina wilsoni n. sp. Ross 1972 trilobite
Xystocrania pyriformis Ross 1972 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Trinodus "sp. 1" M'Coy 1846 | |
Rostroconchia | |
Eopteria cf. richardsoni1 Billings 1865 | |
Tergomya | |
? Archinacella sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Paragastropoda | |
cf. Laeogyra sp.4 Perner 1903
? Helicotis sp. Koken and Perner 1925 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
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"Clathrospira glindmeyeri" = Semizona glindmeyeri3
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Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cuparius cardilatus Ross 1971 | |
Camerella "sp. 1" Billings 1859 | |
Orthidiella sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Orthidium sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Orthidium bellulum Ulrich and Cooper 1938 | |
Strophomenata | |
? Syndielasma sp. Cooper 1956 | |
"? Petroria austrina n. sp." = Leptella (Petroria)
"? Petroria austrina n. sp." = Leptella (Petroria) | |
Ingria cloudi Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Conodonta | |
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont |