USNM 10772. West flank of Dry Creek (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as 4827, 9-6-58

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.0° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 54.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Costispirifer brachiopod zone, Trematospira Zone Member (McColley Canyon Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Costispirifer subzone of Trematospira Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Student group 9 in 1958; 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 164827: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula praeloweryi n. sp. Johnson 1970
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina "sp. C" Havlicek 1953
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
"Acrospirifer ? kobehana" = Patriaspirifer kobehana
"Acrospirifer ? kobehana" = Patriaspirifer kobehana Merriam 1940
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa "sp. A" Dalman 1828
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Mclearnites invasor Johnson 1970
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena "sp. C" Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae