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 (Fusilinella Zone) is equivalent to 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 144022: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 29.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
? Heteralosia sp. King 1938 | |
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"Linoproductus aff. magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus, Linoproductus sp., Linoproductus planiventralis, Linoproductus prattenianus
"Linoproductus aff. magnispinus" = Linipalus magnispinus Dunbar and Condra 1932
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927
Linoproductus planiventralis Hoare 1960
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Lissochonetes sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932
Neochonetes dominus King 1938
Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhipidomella carbonaria Shumard and Swallow 1858 | |
Composita sp., Composita subtilita, Composita trinuclea, Composita ovata, Cleiothyridina pecosii, Cleiothyridina milleri, Cleiothyridina orbicularis
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Composita subtilita Hall 1852
Composita trinuclea Hall 1856
Composita ovata Mather 1915
Cleiothyridina milleri Savage et al. 1978
Cleiothyridina orbicularis McChesney 1859 | |
Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855 | |
Anthracospirifer sp., Anthracospirifer opimus, Anthracospirifer birdspringensis, Anthracospirifer occiduus, Anthracospirifer curvilateralis
Anthracospirifer sp. Lane 1963
Anthracospirifer birdspringensis Lane 1963
Anthracospirifer occiduus Sadlick 1960 | |
Neospirifer sp., Neospirifer gorei, "Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari, Neospirifer cameratus
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
"Neospirifer triplicatus" = Neospirifer dunbari King 1933
Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis
"Punctospirifer kentuckyensis" = Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855 |