Where: Nevada (37.4° N, 115.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° S, 69.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Laketown Dolomite Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• Laketown Dolomite spans Llandovery to Wenlock. Community is said to span Wenlock to Ludlow.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; dolomite
•SEP environmental call based on given info. and knowledge of regional strat.
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 24889: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Camarotoechia pahranagatensis" = Ancillotoechia pahranagatensis
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? Meristina sp. Hall 1867 |