D2052 CO. Meiklejohn mud-mound flanking bed (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as USGS D 2052 CO

Where: Nye County, Nevada (36.9° N, 116.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 82.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Orthidiella brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Lower Antelope Valley Limestone, 290-310 ft above the base of the mud-mound, 358-378 ft above base of the formation, Orthidiella Zone, Early Whiterockian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• flanking bed of the mud-mound

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

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 80073: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
  -
 Parablastoidea - Blastocystidae
"? Blastoidocrinus elongatus" = Parabolablastus elongatus Sprinkle 1973
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Phragmorthidae
Phragmorthis antiqua n. sp. Ross 1972
 Orthida - Anomalorthidae
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthidiella sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Cuparius sp. Ross 1971
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
 Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilina sp. Ulrich 1889 ostracod
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus auriculatus Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Protocalymene sp. Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Kawina sp. Barton 1916 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ectenonotus cf. whittingtoni Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
Pseudomera sp. Holliday 1942 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
? Raymondites sp. Sinclair 1944 trilobite