Where: Nevada (39.9° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 73.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paraorthograptus pacificus graptolite zone, Vinini Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Dieceratograptus mirus Subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; black shale and lime mudstone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: P. Storch, C. E. Mitchell, S. C. Finney and M. J. Melchin. 2011. Uppermost Ordovician (upper Katian-Hirnantian) graptolites of north-central Nevada, USA. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(2):301-386 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 145743: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Pterobranchia | |
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Rectograptus abbreviatus Elles and Wood 1907 graptolite
Anticostia lata Elles and Wood 1906 graptolite | |
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Climacograptus hastatus Hall 1902 climacograptid
Appendispinograptus supernus Elles and Wood 1906 climacograptid | |
"Diceratograptus mirus" = Dicranograptus, Dicellograptus minor, Dicellograptus ornatus, Pleurograptus lui
"Diceratograptus mirus" = Dicranograptus graptolite
Dicellograptus minor graptolite
Dicellograptus ornatus Elles and Wood 1904 graptolite
Pleurograptus lui Mu 1950 graptolite | |