USGS loc. D545-CO (Ordovician to of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (36.4° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 76.1° W)

When: Ely Springs Formation, Cincinnatian to Cincinnatian (451.0 - 433.4 Ma)

• Miller (1976) says Cincinnatian through Llandovery.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, black dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: W. E. Hall. 1971. Geology of the Panamint Butte Quadrangle, Inyo County, California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1299:1-67 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226423: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 07.07.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyellidae indet.
Sowerbyellidae indet. Opik 1930
"Sowerbyella? sp. or Thaerodonta? sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
? Lepidocyclus sp.