Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.9° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 65.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Roberts Mountain Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified 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 181245: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Ozarkodina excavata excavata conodont | |
Ozarkodina confluens Rhodes 1953 conodont | |
Kockelella variabilis Walliser 1957 conodont | |
Polygnathoides emarginatus conodont | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont |