Bed 2, Ely Limestone, Illipah Nevada (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as S52(0)

Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.5° N, 115.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 42.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ely Limestone Formation, Atokan (318.6 - 312.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

• "packstone" from strat colum (fig. 2)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, acetic,

• "Slabs were disolved using acetic acid to remove carbonate and some residual minerap phases, leaving silicified fossil associations of brachiopods although carbonate brachiopod specimens were also found and removed using mechanical procedures"

•echinoderms were reported present on strat column (Fig. 2) but were not in faunal list

Primary reference: A. Perez-Huerta and N. D. Sheldon. 2006. Pennsylvanian sea level cycles, nutrient availability and brachiopod paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230:264-279 [N. Heim/N. Heim/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59845: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 18.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Productida - Productellidae
"Kozlowskia splendens" = Productus splendens Norwood and Pratten 1855
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae