Where: Nye County, Nevada (36.4° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 124.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Wood Canyon Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• The lower member records a highstand systems tract consisting of three carbonate-capped parasequences.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: J. W. Hagadorn and B. M. Waggoner. 2000. Ediacaran Fossils from the Southwestern Great Basin, United States. Journal of Paleontology 74(2):349-359 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7180: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 10.05.2000, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Scyphozoa | |
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Corumbella sp. jellyfish | |
| Archaeichnium | |
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cf. Archaeichnium sp. Glaessner 1963 | |
| Cloudina | |
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cf. Cloudina sp. Germs 1972 | |
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Swartpuntia cf. germsi Narbonne et al. 1997
? Ernietta sp. Pflug 1966 | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Onuphionella sp. Kiryanov 1968 | |
| Orthothecimorpha | |
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Palaeophycus cf. tubularis Hall 1847 | |