Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.7° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 43.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bird Spring Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Atokan (Profusulinella Zone) is equivalent to lower Moscovian at Arrow Canyon (Bishop et al., 2010 Geosphere 6:1-34)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified, silty limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original silica
Collection methods: bulk, chemical
Primary reference: R. L. Langenheim, Jr., B. G. Huff, E. W. Lipman and R. C. Vaiden. 1985. Preliminary report of the brachiopod fauna, Arrow Canyon section, southern Nevada, U.S.A. Xth International Congress, Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Madrid, 1983, Compte rendu 2:425-433 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144021: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 29.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Dictyoclostus sp. Muir-Wood 1930 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari
"Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari King 1933 | |
Anthracospirifer birdspringensis Lane 1963 | |