Also known as Valmy Fm., uncertain late Tremadoc to Llandeilo
Where: Nevada (38.9° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° S, 82.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Valmy Formation, Stairsian to Stairsian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)
• "uncertain late Tremadoc to Llandeilo, correlates with Goodwin Ls."
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1958. Trilobites in a pillow lava of the Ordovician Valmy Formation, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 32:559-570 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 281: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
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Inarticulata | |
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Articulata | |
Tergomya | |
"Propilina sp." = Proplina
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Gastropoda | |
"? Rhombella "n. sp."" = Euconia
"? Rhombella "n. sp."" = Euconia Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail originally entered as "? Rhombella sp."
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Trilobita | |
"Shumardia aff. minutula" = Conophrys minutula
"Shumardia aff. minutula" = Conophrys minutula Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
Apatokephalus gillulyi trilobite | |
Leiostegium mudgei trilobite | |
Pliomeroides sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite | |
Strigigenalis sp. Whittington and Ross 1953 trilobite | |
Isbergia sp. Warburg 1925 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
"? Trinodus valmyensis" = Galbagnostus valmyensis
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