Arrow Canyon Range (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Reef 3300

Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.6° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 90.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Millardan (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• low-energy, subtidal environments
• skeletal-microbial reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-H. Lee, B. F. Dattilo, S. Mrozek, J. F. Miller, and R. Riding. 2019. Lithistid sponge-microbial reefs, Nevada, USA: Filling the late Cambrian ‘reef gap’. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200142: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhodophyceae
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Angusticellularia sp.
Angusticellularia sp. Vologdin 1962
Demospongiae
 Lithistida -
Lithistida indet.
 Lithistida - Streptosolenidae
? Wilbernicyathus sp.
? Wilbernicyathus sp. Wilson 1950 demosponge
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Anthaspidellidae indet.
Anthaspidellidae indet. Miller 1889 demosponge