Where: Inyo County, California (37.8° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 96.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Poleta Formation, Montezuman (520.0 - 515.3 Ma)
• lower limestone
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, massive, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous bafflestone and calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
Primary reference: E. H. McKee and R. A. Gangloff. 1969. Stratigraphic distribution of archaeocyathids in the Silver Peak Range and the White and Inyo Mountains, western Nevada and Eastern California. Journal of Paleontology 43(3):716-726 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 226374: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 01.07.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
Ethmophyllum whitneyi Meek 1868 archaeocyath sponge |