Bear Cove, north end and east side of Brock Mountain (coral zone) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: California (40.8° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 57.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hosselkus Formation, Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144389: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.05.2013, edited by Catherine Powers and Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
"Confusastrea decussata" = Kuhnastraea decussata
"Confusastrea decussata" = Kuhnastraea decussata Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) dendriformis" = Eocomoseris ramosa
"Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) dendriformis" = Eocomoseris ramosa Frech 1890 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Latimaeandra" eucystis Frech 1890 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
Areaseris nevadensis stony coral
var. minor