Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.4° N, 114.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: upper Member (Willow Tank Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• "upper mudrock member"
•See Fleck 1970; Troyer et al. 2006; Pape et al. 2011; Wells 2016
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; fine-grained siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Bonde
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. W. Bonde, D. J. Varricchio, F. D. Jackson, D. B. Loope, and A. M. Shirk. 2008. Dinosaurs and dunes! Sedimentology and paleontology of the Mesozoic in the Valley of Fire State Park. In E. M. Duebendorfer & E. I. Smith (ed.), Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada: Geological Society of America Field Guide 11:249-262 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 181586: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Naomichelys sp. Hay 1908 turtle | |
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle | |
? Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
cf. Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Actinopteri | |
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