Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.2° N, 116.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 80.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Histiodella sinuosa - Histiodella holodentata conodont zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• Anomalorthis Zone, Kanoshian, middle Whiterockian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; dolomitic, peloidal lime mudstone and dolomitic, peloidal wackestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: A. G. Harris, S. M. Bergström, R. L. Ethington and R. J. Ross. 1979. Aspects of Middle and Upper Ordovician Conodont Biostratigraphy of Carbonate Facies in Nevada and Southeast California and Comparison with Some Appalachian Successions. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 26(3):7-44 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210657: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Conodonta | |
Conodonta "n. gen." Pander 1856 conodont
Conodonta "simple cone indet." Pander 1856 conodont | |
Belodina monitorensis conodont
Panderodus spp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Periodon sp. Hadding 1913 conodont | |
"Scandodus" nevadensis conodont | |
""Acontiodus" nevadensis" = Acodus
""Acontiodus" nevadensis" = Acodus conodont | |
Erraticodon sp. Dzik 1978 conodont | |
"Polyplacognathus friendsvillensis" = Cahabagnathus friendsvillensis, Polyplacognathus rutriformis
"Polyplacognathus friendsvillensis" = Cahabagnathus friendsvillensis Bergström 1971 conodont
Polyplacognathus rutriformis conodont | |
Phragmodus flexuosus Moskalenko 1973 conodont | |
Pygodus serra Hadding 1913 conodont | |
Belodella "n. sp." Ethington 1959 conodont | |
"Belodella nevadensis" = Ansella nevadensis
"Belodella nevadensis" = Ansella nevadensis Ethington and Schumacher 1969 conodont |