Copenhagen Canyon IV, sample 8897 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.2° N, 116.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 62.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lower Member (Rabbit Hill Limestone Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone and lithified, cherty/siliceous wackestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve

Primary reference: M. A. Murphy and J. C. Matti. 1982. Lower Devonian Conodonts (hesperius-kindlei Zones), Central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 123:1-83 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179561: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
"Ozarkodina pandora" = Masaraella pandora Murphy et al. 1981 conodont