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

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