Where: Owyhee County, Idaho (42.9° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 114.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone and ash
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: E. Theriot and J. P. Bradbury. 1987. Mesodictyon, a New Fossil Genus of the Centric Diatom Family Thalassiosiraceae from the Miocene Chalk Hills Formation, Western Snake River Plain, Idaho. Micropaleontology 33(4):356-367 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191557: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bacillariophyceae | |
Mesodictyon fovis n. sp.
Mesodictyon fovis n. sp. Theriot and Bradbury 1987 diatom |