Gold Point Reef, uppermost part of the reef (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Reef 4335

Where: Esmeralda County, Nevada (37.4° N, 117.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.2° N, 141.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Poleta Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. B. Pruss, M. L. Slaymaker, E. F. Smith, A. Y. Zhuravlev, and D. A. Fike. 2021. Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA. Facies 67(14) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218893: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 03.03.2021

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Archaeocyathus sp. Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Metacyathellus sp. Debrenne and Zhuravlev 1990 archaeocyath sponge