Also known as USGS D 1966 CO. Reef 2366

Where: Nye County, Nevada (36.9° N, 116.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 83.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paralenorthis-Orthidiella brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Rangerian (470.0 - 470.3 Ma)

• Lower Antelope Valley Limestone, 50 ft above the base of the mud-mound, 118 ft above base of the formation, Orthidiella Zone, Early Whiterockian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS, USNM

Primary reference: R. J. Ross, Jr. 1972. Fossils from the Ordovician bioherm at Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 685 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80059: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2008, edited by Pete Wagner

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