McCoy Mine area, NE New Pass Range, Fossil Hill Member (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.9° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 41.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Shoshonensis ammonoid zone, latest Middle Anisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone

• a moderately deep (below storm wave base) basin that was occasionally oxygen-starved
• dark, organic-rich silty limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. K. Hopkin and C. A. McRoberts. 2005. A new Middle Triassic flat clam (Pterioida: Halobiidae) from the Middle Anisian of north-central Nevada, USA. Journal of Paleontology 79(4):796-800 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62310: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Gymnotoceras aff. ginsburgi, Favreticeras ransomei
Gymnotoceras aff. ginsburgi Bucher 1992 ceratite
Favreticeras ransomei Smith 1914 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Balatonitidae
Balatonites cf. shoshonensis
Balatonites cf. shoshonensis Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
"Enteropleura jenksi n. sp." = Wallerobia jenksi
"Enteropleura jenksi n. sp." = Wallerobia jenksi Hopkin and McRoberts 2005 oyster