Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.1° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 68.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 419.2 Ma)
• Age range of community is Wenlockian to Pridolian. Information on USNM locality 13207 needs to be tracked down to determine age of the unnamed dolomite.
Environment/lithology: dolomite
•SEP environmental call based on, well, nothing as nothing is given.
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Abundances stated in text.
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 24809: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
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? Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
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Salopina sp. Boucot 1960 | |
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Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
Cyrtia sp. Dalman 1828 | |
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Reticulariidae indet. Waagen 1883 | |
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Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
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Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
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Ferganella sp. Nikiforova 1937 | |