Where: Nevada (39.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 41.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Favret Formation, Pelsonian to Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Bositra beds of Hyatti Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: T. R. Waller and G. D. Stanley. 2005. Middle Triassic pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. Journal of Paleontology 79(Supplement):1-64 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47926: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 08.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bositra favretensis n. sp.
Bositra favretensis n. sp. oyster |