Where: Lander County, Nevada (38.8° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° N, 55.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ferguson Hill Member (Sunrise Formation), Angulata to Angulata (201.3 - 189.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Northwest Museum of Natural History (NWMNH)
Primary reference: D.G. Taylor. 2000. The Canadensis Zone (Early Jurassic) in the Shoshone Mountains Nevada. GeoResearch Forum 6:211-224 [A. Miller/D. Schramm/D. Schramm]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42871: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Danielle Schramm on 06.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eolytoceras tasekoi Frebold 1967 ammonite | |
Angulaticeras sp. Quenstedt 1882 ammonite
Angulaticeras ex gr. posttaurinus Waehner 1886 ammonite | |
Badouxia canadensis Frebold 1951 ammonite
Badouxia columbiae Frebold 1967 ammonite |