Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.2° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.0° S, 55.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: costatus zone, Coils Creek Limestone Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• Johnson et. al. (1996) list this bed as "Section Prefix VH, Sample number 36, Nearest Foot: 69, Meters in Section: 21.1". It is assumed that the nearest foot and meter measurements are referenced from the base of their Section V, as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, graded packstone and grainstone
Primary reference: J. G. Johnson, G. Klapper, and M. Elrick. 1996. Devonian Transgressive-Regressive Cycles and Biostratigraphy, Northern Antelope Range, Nevada: Establishment of Reference Horizons for Global Cycles. Palaios 11(1):3-14 [A. Miller/D. Carlson/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2777: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 19.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Vallomyonia devonica Walcott 1884 | |
Ambocoeliidae indet. George 1931 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Conodonta | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
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