U.S.G.S. 1273-CO, west side of Crum Canyon (Ordovician to of the United States)

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

• "gray, fine to coarsely xtaline ls in pocket in pillow lava (greenstone) assoc black chert, black sh and sltst, quartzite, turbidites. BA5. geosynclinal."
• Some parts of the enclosing limestone are coarsely crystalline with individual crystals up to 1.0 mm. in diameter. The coarser parts are highly fossiliferous, being composed largely of trilobite carapaces. Finer-grained limestone contains large gastropods, but few trilobites. A few simple conodonts have been obtained from the insoluble residue (formic acid), as well as one silicified articulate species and several inarticulate species of brachiopods. Some surfaces of the limestone weather moderate yellowish brown and from a dis- tance could be mistaken for weathered greenstone. Other surfaces weather light olive gray. On fresh surface the rock is medium gray. The complete lack of evidence for any contact metamorphism (Gilluly, 1957, oral communication) indicates that the fossiliferous carbonate sediments were deposited after the basalt pillows had cooled.

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

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Taxonomic list

• "R.J.Ross Jr. 1958. Trilobites in a pillow lava of the Ord. Valmy Fm., Nevada. J.Paleo 32:559-570"
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
? Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
originally entered as "? Didymograptus sp."
Inarticulata
  -
Inarticulata indet.
"several species"
Articulata
  -
Tergomya
 Tryblidiida - Tryblidiidae
"Propilina sp." = Proplina
"Propilina sp." = Proplina Kobayashi 1933
originally entered as "Proplina sp."
Gastropoda
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
"? Rhombella "n. sp."" = Euconia
"? Rhombella "n. sp."" = Euconia Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
originally entered as "? Rhombella sp."
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
"Shumardia aff. minutula" = Conophrys minutula
"Shumardia aff. minutula" = Conophrys minutula Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Pliomeroides sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Strigigenalis sp. Whittington and Ross 1953 trilobite
 Proetida - Rorringtoniidae
Isbergia sp. Warburg 1925 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
"? Trinodus valmyensis" = Galbagnostus valmyensis
"? Trinodus valmyensis" = Galbagnostus valmyensis Ross 1958
originally entered as "? Trinodus sp."