Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.9° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 46.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Luning Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• The Luning Formation is a remnant of a tectonically dismembered Lower Mesozoic carbonate platform complex exposed in scattered ranges throughout west-central Nevada. It rests unconformably upon different, often unamed, Late Paleozoic and Triassic units in each outcrop, but is regoinally overlain by the Upper Triassic through Lower Jurassic Gabbs and Sunrise Formations.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, silty wackestone and lithified, silty packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: J. A. Hogler. 1992. Community structure, paleoecology, and depositional environments within the Upper Triassic Luning Formation of Nevada. [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/N. Bonuso]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32520: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 08.07.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia a clam
Bivalvia m clam | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Halobia sp. Bronn 1830 oyster | |
Umbrostrea montiscaprilis Klipstein 1843 oyster | |
Septocardia sp. Hall 1877 cockle | |
Costatoria sp. Waagen 1907 clam | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily |