USGS 25581-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Area 5, Toiyabe Range

Where: Nye County, Nevada (39.0° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° S, 51.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cavusgnathus altus - Hindeodus penescitulus zone, unnamed carbonate unit Member, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Formation is unnamed.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray, silty packstone

• Corals are variably abraded.
• dark-gray weathering, very silty packestone.

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Abundant forams, crinoid columnals, and bryozoan fragments.

Primary reference: W. J. Sando. 1993. Coralliferous carbonate shelves of Mississippian age, west side of Antler Orogen, central Nevada. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1988-F:1-34 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6272: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 22.02.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
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Latiendothyra sp.
 Fusulinina - Tournayellidae
Septabrunsiina sp., Septaglomospiranella sp.
Asphaltina
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Asphaltina sp.
Asphaltina sp. Mamet 1972
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Cyathaxonia sp.
Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
Sychnoelasma cf. alrichanum
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
? Lophophyllum sp.
? Lophophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Stauriida - Uraliniidae
Vesiculophyllum sp.
Vesiculophyllum sp. Easton 1944 horn coral