Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.5° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 43.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cravenoceras hesperium zone, Diamond Peak Formation, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• JA: ammonoid zone is "early Namurian" = Serpukhovian and "equivalent to the lower part of foraminiferal Zone 18" of Mamet and Skipp 1970, which is early Serpukhovian = Pendleian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, pebbly, sandy, calcareous limestone

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: M., J.r. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1983. A gastropod fauna from the Cravenoceras hesperium ammonoid zone (Upper Mississippian) in east-central Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 57(5):971-991 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5530: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.10.1999

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