Where: Nevada (38.5° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° N, 55.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ferguson Hill Member (Sunrise Formation), Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• Early Sinemurian Involutum Zone, a Cordilleran ammonite zone correlated with
•the upper Bucklandi subzone to lower Semicostatum zone of northwestern Europe
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Northwest Museum of Natural History (NWMNH)
Primary reference: M. S. Hodges and G. D. Stanley. 2015. North American coral recovery after the end-Triassic mass extinction, New York Canyon, Nevada, USA. GSA Today [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197277: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop | |
Anthozoa | |
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