Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.0° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 70.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Roberts Mountain Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous dolomite

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve

Primary reference: G. Klapper and M. A. Murphy. 1974. Silurian-Lower Devonian conodont sequence in the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 111:1-62 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181135: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.08.2016

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