Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.9° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 53.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Luning Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 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 lime mudstone and lithified, silty wackestone

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 32661: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 11.07.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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