NMMNH L12283, north side of Favret Canyon, Augusta Mountains (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (40.1° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 41.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nevadisculites taylori ammonoid zone, Favret Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Angustaceras escheri subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Jenks; reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: E. A. Bischof and J. Lehmann. 2020. Ontogenetic analysis of Anisian (Middle Triassic) ptychitid ammonoids from Nevada, USA. Journal of Paleontology 94:829-851 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213144: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites wrighti McLearn 1946 ceratite