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 shale and lithified lime mudstone
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 32738: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 14.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Halobia sp. Bronn 1830 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Guembelites sp. Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite |