Locality 6815, First Canyon, Shoshone Mountains (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Lander County, Nevada (38.8° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 55.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: rursicostatum ammonoid zone, Ferguson Hill Member (Sunrise Formation), Angulata (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Northwest Museum of Natural History (NWMNH)

Primary reference: D.G. Taylor. 2000. The Canadensis Zone (Early Jurassic) in the Shoshone Mountains Nevada. GeoResearch Forum 6:211-224 [A. Miller/D. Schramm/D. Schramm]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157493: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Badouxia forticostata1
Badouxia forticostata1 Longridge et al. 2006 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schlotheimiidae
Schlotheimia cf. cuevitensis2
Schlotheimia cf. cuevitensis2 Hillebrandt 2000 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Pseudaetomoceras shoshonense
Pseudaetomoceras shoshonense Taylor 1998 ammonite
1Longridge et al. 2006; 2Longridge et al. 2008