USNM 10710. Highest saddle, ridge trending SW from Hill 7836, W. Williams Spring (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 3522, M4-3

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.1° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 54.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acrospirifer kobehana brachiopod zone, Acrospirifer kobehana Member (McColley Canyon Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Summer Field Class in 1953; 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 164798: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.12.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
"Acrospirifer kobehana" = Patriaspirifer kobehana
"Acrospirifer kobehana" = Patriaspirifer kobehana Merriam 1940
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea navicula Johnson 1970
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula praeloweryi Johnson 1970
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena "sp. C" Dalman 1828