USGS 24944-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.2° N, 115.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 50.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cavusgnathus altus - Hindeodus penescitulus zone, unnamed carbonate unit Member, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone and packstone

• Corals are silicified or calcitic.
• light gray weathering crinoidal biomicrite (wackestone and packstone).

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

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 6297: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.02.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Paracaligelloides sp., Skippella sp.
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Mametella sp.
Mametella sp. Brenckle 1977
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Eotuberitina sp.
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Brunsia sp.
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia sp.
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Globoendothyra sp., Eoendothyranopsis sp., Eoendothyranopsis ermakiensis
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp.
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
  -
Pseudotaxis sp.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron cf. sinuosum, Siphonodendron cf. whitneyi
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
Multithecopora sp.
Multithecopora sp. Yoh 1927 tabulate coral
morphogroup A of Sando 1984