Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.4° N, 115.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° N, 40.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bird Spring Group, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)
• 57 m above 1257. The Permian part of the Lee Canyon section is 1,616 m thick. As first recognized by Barosh (1968), it has three lithologic units: a lower limestone sequence (238 m thick), a central sandstone sequence with some thin limestone beds (1,037 m thick), and an upper sandstone-limestone sequence (341 m thick). Lowest colonial rugose coral occurs in the lower part of the Zone of Pseudoschwagerina and slightly above the occurrence of Triticites creekensis.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E.C. Wilson, L. Walters in 1969, 1970, 1975; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: E. C. Wilson. 1991. Permian corals from the Spring Mountains, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 65(5):727-741 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61680: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 22.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Diphyphyllum connorsensis" = Tschussovskenia connorsensis
"Diphyphyllum connorsensis" = Tschussovskenia connorsensis Easton 1960 horn coral |