B1, South Canyon, New Pass Range, Nevada (Triassic to of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra favretensis n. sp. oyster