Calycalyptella Community, Lochkovian, Carlin, Nevada (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (40.7° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 61.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone

• "Population density low...BA 4-5...quiet-water...[possibly] low oxygen"

•SEP environmental call based on given description

• "Occurs as scattered valves, many of them in the butterfly position, on fine-grained mudstones. Beds thinly layered."

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1999. Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 549-591 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24789: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.08.2002

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Calycalyptella sp.