Where: Nevada (39.2° N, 116.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 82.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ninemile Formation (Pogonip Group), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• approx. 8 m below whiterockian/ibexian boundary
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green mudstone and lithified, lenticular, gray lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: S. E. Peters. 2003. Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective. The University of Chicago 1-279 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64601: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 10.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhombifera | |
Rhombifera sp. Zittel 1879 | |
Gastropoda | |
? Peelerophon sp. Yochelson 1982 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
? Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Lingulata | |
? Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
? Schizambon sp. Walcott 1884 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Stenolaemata indet. Borg 1926 | |
Polychaeta | |
Machaeridia indet. scale worm | |
Artiopoda | |
Agnostida indet. Salter 1864 | |
Trilobita | |
? Protopresbynileus sp. Hintze 1954 trilobite
Lachnostoma sp. Ross 1951 trilobite | |
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
? Leperditicopida indet. Scott 1961 ostracod |