Where: Las Vegas County, Nevada (36.7° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 7.4° S, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anomalorthis brachiopod zone, Upper Member (Antelope Valley Formation), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• Zone N (Anomalorthis); Histiodella sinuosa conodont zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: E. Kirk. 1930. Mitrospira, a new Ordovician gasteropod genus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 76(22):1-6 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156585: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Mitrospira longwelli n. gen. n. sp." = Palliseria longwelli
"Mitrospira longwelli n. gen. n. sp." = Palliseria longwelli Kirk 1930 snail |