USNM 10799. Roberts Creek Mountain (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP Loc. 24740; UCLA Loc. 4740; J58-4

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.6° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 54.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus costatus costatus conodont zone, Denay Limestone Formation (Nevada Group), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Conodont zone: costatus. Johnson Faunal Interval

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk,

• Brachiopods described by Johnson (1970, 1971 J. Paleo papers)

Primary reference: R. B. Blodgett and J. G. Johnson. 1992. Early Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Gastropods of Central Nevada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 222:85-139 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3825: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema walcotti Blodgett and Johnson 1992 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Ptychomphalina "n. sp." Fischer 1885 snail
Pleurorima sp. Perner 1907 snail