USGS loc. 5742, Bird Spring Range (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Locality 8 of Hewett 1956

Where: Clark County, Nevada (35.9° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 45.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Bird Spring Formation, Early/Lower Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: D. F. Hewett. 1956. Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California and Nevada. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 275:1-172 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 229430: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.03.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus aff. inflatus" = Dictyoclostus inflatus
"Productus aff. inflatus" = Dictyoclostus inflatus McChesney 1860