Also known as WCE
Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.9° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 55.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eurekaspirifer pinyonensis brachiopod zone, Eurekaspirifer pinyonensis Zone Member (McColley Canyon Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica
Collected by A. J. Boucot 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 164801: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Leptocoelia cf. murphyi Johnson 1970 | |
? Rhynchonellidae "indet." Gray 1848 | |
Costispirifer sp. Copper 1942
Acrospirifer aff. murchisoni Castelneau 1843 | |
"Elytha sp." = Elita
"Elytha sp." = Elita | |
Metaplasia cf. paucicostata Schuchert 1913 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Meristella cf. robertsensis Merriam 1940 | |
Coelospira pseudocamilla Johnson 1970 | |
Cyrtina cf. varia Clarke 1900 | |
Dalejina "sp. B" Havlicek 1953 | |
Levenea navicula Johnson 1970 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
? Strophonella sp. Hall 1879 | |
Stropheodonta filicosta Johnson 1970
Megastrophia transitans Johnson 1970 | |
"Schuchertella" "sp. (coarse ribs)" Girty 1904 |