Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.7° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 41.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bird Spring Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• Missourian (Cylindrical Triticites Zone) is equivalent 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 144024: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 29.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Antiquatonia hermosana, "Antiquatonia portlockiana" = Antiquatonia portlockianus, "Kozlowskia splendens" = Productus splendens
"Antiquatonia portlockiana" = Antiquatonia portlockianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 subsp. ? crassicostata
"Kozlowskia splendens" = Productus splendens Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927
Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
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Meekella striatocostata Cox 1857 | |
"Mesolobus euampygus" = Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus
"Mesolobus euampygus" = Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus Girty 1912 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919 | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855
Crurithyris expansa Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Hustedia cf. mormoni Marcou 1858 | |
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