USNM 10714, 10715. Flanks of Willow Creek (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 4386, J63-1 (10714); 4387, W3-59 (10715)

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.9° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 55.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trematospira brachiopod zone, Trematospira Zone Member (McColley Canyon Formation), Deer Parkian (409.1 - 391.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. G. Johnson; E. L. Winterer in 1959; 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 164799: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Trematospira perforata Hall 1857
USNM 10715
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira "sp. B" Hall 1859
USNM 10714
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Megakozlowskiella magnapleura Johnson 1970
USNM 10714
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina "sp. B" Havlicek 1953
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea navicula n. sp. Johnson 1970
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Leptocoelia murphyi Johnson 1970
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 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ancillotoechia aptata Johnson 1970
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Megastrophia transitans Johnson 1970
USNM 10714