Bed d2. Sidehill Pass (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.5° N, 115.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 54.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis triangularis conodont zone, West Range Limestone Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• collection taken from the upper 30 ft of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous limestone and poorly lithified mudstone

• Less resistant shale, mudstone, and argilaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. S. Mayer. 1994. Late Devonian (Famennian) brachiopods of the West Range Limestone and the Pilot Shale of eastern Nevada 1-186 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231668: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
Floweria magnacicatrix Cooper and Dutro 1982
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae