Brick Pile Section A, BIS30, 80-90m (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.9° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 46.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Klamathites macrolobatus ammonoid zone, Luning Formation, Kaihikuan (238.0 - 227.5 Ma)

• uppermost Carnian Macrolobatus Zone - the lowermost Norian Kerri Zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, silty limestone

• "part of a sequence of nodular and wavy bedded, discontinuously cross-stratified, organic-rich, silty and shaly limestones"; "The Luning Formation in the Shoshone Mountains consists of basal chert pebble conglomerates and sandstones, overlain by a series of highly organic carbonate-rich shales and silty limestones, and capped by comparatively pure limestone and dolomite."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by M. Wheat, C. L. Camp in the 1950s

Primary reference: M. Balini, J. F. Jenks, R. Martin, C. A. McRoberts, M.J. Orchard and N. J. Silberling. 2015. The Carnian/Norian boundary succession at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (Upper Triassic, central Nevada, USA). Paläontologische Zeitung (89)399-433 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174397: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Primatella mersinensis, Primatella sp., Primatella asymmetrica, Primatella conservativa, Acuminatella acuminata
Primatella sp. Orchard 2013 conodont
Primatella asymmetrica Orchard 2013 conodont
Primatella conservativa Orchard 2013 conodont
Acuminatella acuminata Orchard 2013 conodont