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 wackestone and lithified, calcareous shale
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 32725: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 14.07.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Juvavites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite | |
Klamathites sp. Smith 1927 ceratite
Klamathites schucherti Smith 1927 ceratite | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Germanonautilus kummeli nautiloid
Phloioceras mulieri nautiloid | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
cf. Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Nuculana (Thestyleda) sp. Iredale 1929 pointed nut clam originally entered as "Nuculana (Thestyleda)"; changed by JA 30.6.04
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Halobia sp. Bronn 1830 oyster | |
Umbrostrea montiscaprilis Klipstein 1843 oyster | |
Septocardia sp. Hall 1877 cockle | |
Costatoria sp. Waagen 1907 clam |