Also known as 4784, A75-1
Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.2° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 54.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Trematospira brachiopod zone, Eurekaspirifer pinyonensis Zone Member (McColley Canyon Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• 1-5 ft above base of McColley Canyon Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: argillaceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collected by M. A. Murphy in 1963; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. G. Johnson. 1970. Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper (131)1-421 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164796: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Levenea navicula Johnson 1970 | |
Dyticospirifer mccolleyensis Johnson 1966 | |
Leptocoelia murphyi Johnson 1970 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia cf. beckii Hall 1857 | |
Stropheodonta magnacosta n. sp.
Stropheodonta magnacosta n. sp. Johnson 1970 |