Fossil Hill (Lower Prida Fm) (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Pershing County, Nevada (40.3° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 40.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Subcolumbites ammonoid zone, lower (unnamed) Member (Prida Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. P. Kelley, R. Motani, P. Embree and M. J. Orchard. 2016. A new Lower Triassic ichthyopterygian assemblage from Fossil Hill, Nevada. PeerJ 4(e1626) [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195195: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 26.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Prohungarites gutstadti Kummel 1969 ceratite | |
Conodonta | |
Neostrachanognathus sp. Koike 1998 conodont
Triassospathodus symmetricus Orchard 1995 conodont | |
Reptilia | |
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cf. Utatsusaurus sp. Shikama and Kamei 1978 ichthyosaur Partial mandible; USNM 559349, thought to be from horizon FH1-7
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