Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.7° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 42.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bird Spring Formation, Moscovian to Moscovian (315.2 - 303.7 Ma)

• Desmoinesian (Fusulina Zone) is equivalent to Moscovian to Kasimovian 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 144023: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 29.04.2013

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