Tor Community, Tor Limestone, Toquima Range (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.1° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 62.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Tor Limestone Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• "Dev. u. Gedi?"

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; carbonate

• "thick bedded, rather massive, quite pure calcite. outer shelf bioherms or biostromes; photic zone. Cordilleran miogeocline. BA4. Stricklandia equivalent?"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Kay and J. P. Crawford. 1964. Paleozoic. facies from the miogeosynclinal to eugeosynclinal belt in thrust slices, central NV. Geological Society America Bulletin 75:425-454 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 591: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Kay and Crawford, 1964. Table 5, p.441. GSA Bull."
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
rhynchonellids - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
originally entered as "? Isorthis sp."
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Septatrypa sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Plectatrypa sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883
rostrospiroids
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
corals
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
stromatoporoids
Algae
 Algae -