USGS D2242-CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as 1-32-1J

Where: Esmeralda County, Nevada (37.9° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 81.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nemagraptus gracilis + Climacograptus bicornis graptolite zone, Palmetto Formation, Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• "in span of Nemagraptus gracilis and Climacograptus bicornis zones (zones 9 an 10 of Elles and Wood, 1914)"

Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray, green, cherty/siliceous shale and gray limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. T. Robinson, J. H. Stewart, R. J. Moiola and J. P. Albers. 1976. Geologic map of the Rhyolite Ridge quadrangle, Esmeralda County, Nevada. [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203993: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 29.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
"possibly members of the G. teretiusculus type of glyptograptid"
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Glossograptus sp. graptolite
"probably G. hincksii"