Also known as Pentlandella Community in the Laketown Dolomite, southern Egan Range, Nevada
Where: Nevada (38.5° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.7° S, 70.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gettel Lake Member (Laketown Dolomite Formation), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• C6 (Llandoverian) to Lower Wenlock. Sheehan in this reference says material is from Gettel member, but Sheehan in Boucot [PBDB ref. 6948, p. 567] says High Lake Member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; silty dolomite
•SEP environmental call based on given info. and knowledge of regional strat.
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• USNM localities 19180 and 19193 combined. Abundances given in table 7.
Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan. 1980. Paleogeography and marine communities of the Silurian carbonate shelf in Utah and Nevada. in T. D. Fouch and E. R. Magathan, eds. Paleozoic paleogeography of west-central United States. Rocky Mountain Section, SEPM 19-37 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24886: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Asthenophyllum sp. Grubbs 1939 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Atrypina erugata Amsden 1968 | |
Atrypidae indet. Gill 1871 | |
Pentlandella sp. n. sp.
Pentlandella sp. n. sp. | |
Strophomenata | |
Plectambonitidae indet. Kozlowski 1929 |