Willow Creek VI 7A (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.0° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.5° S, 54.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: costatus zone, Delay limestone Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; gray limestone and massive packstone

• laminated thin-bedded, lime-mudstone with interbedded massive bioclastic packstone, grainstone and occasionally also intraformational breccias

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Murphy

Collection methods: acetic,

• the collection is deposited at the University of California, Riverside

Primary reference: S. Vodrazkova, G. Klapper, and M. A. Murphy. 2011. Early Middle Devonian conodont faunas (Eifelian, costatus-kockelianus zones) from the Roberts Mountains and adjacent areas in central Nevada. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(4):737-764 [S. Gouwy/S. Gouwy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152767: authorized by Sofie Gouwy, entered by Sofie Gouwy on 01.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus costatus, Polygnathus angusticostatus
Polygnathus costatus Klapper 1971 conodont
Polygnathus angusticostatus Wittekindt 1966 conodont