Brick Pile Section A, BIS38, 170-180m (Triassic of the United States)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 20.3° N, 40.4° W (Wright 2013)

• 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 174405: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Juvavitidae
Guembelites jandianus
Guembelites jandianus von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Thisbitidae
Stikinoceras kerri
Stikinoceras kerri McLearn 1930 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia cf. beyrichi, Halobia cf. selwyni
Halobia cf. beyrichi Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Halobia cf. selwyni McRoberts 2011 oyster
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Primatella mersinensis, Primatella asymmetrica
Primatella asymmetrica Orchard 2013 conodont