Galena Canyon, Battle Mountain (Cambrian to of the United States)

Also known as Reef 2275

Where: Lander County, Nevada (40.6° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 92.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scott Canyon Formation, Botomian to Botomian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• olistoliths within debris flow near the top of the Ordovician Valmy Formation just above a radiolarian chert and immediately below the Silurian Harmony Sandstone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "shallower and quiter waters of a continental platform, but inboard to the oceanic margin"
• fragments of microbial-archaeocyath bioconstructions, low diversity algal/microbial assemblage

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Debrenne, A. Gandin, and R. A. Gangloff. 1990. Analyse sedimentologique et paleontologie de calcaires organogenes du Cambrien inferieur de Battle Mountain (Nevada, USA) [Sedimentology and paleontology of the Lower Cambrian organogenic limestones from Battle Mountain (Nevada, USA)]. Annales de Paleontologie 76(2):73-119 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81004: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Hydroconozoa
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Aploconus lafustei
Archaeocyatha
 Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
Polythalamia americana n. gen. n. sp.
Polythalamia americana n. gen. n. sp. Debrenne and Wood 1990 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Siderocyathus duncanae
Siderocyathus duncanae archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Mackenziecyathus bukryi
Mackenziecyathus bukryi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
Plicocyathus rozanovi
Plicocyathus rozanovi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus edelsteini
Tegerocyathus edelsteini archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Molybdocyathus juvenilis
Molybdocyathus juvenilis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Claruscoscinidae
Landercyathus lewandowskii
Landercyathus lewandowskii archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra arcybata, Protopharetra junensis, ? Spirocyathella microporosa n. sp.
Protopharetra arcybata archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra junensis Zhuravleva 1987 archaeocyath sponge
? Spirocyathella microporosa n. sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeosyconidae
Archaeosycon copulatus
Archaeosycon copulatus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Archaeocyathus cf. atlanticus, Arrythmocricus mcdamensis
Archaeocyathus cf. atlanticus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
Arrythmocricus mcdamensis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Syringocnemidae
Williamicyathus sp.
Williamicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Keriocyathidae
Keriocyathus arachnaius
Keriocyathus arachnaius archaeocyath sponge
Salterella
  - Salterellidae
? Salterella sp.
? Salterella sp. Billings 1861
Botomaella
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Botomaella sp.
Botomaella sp. Korde 1958
Bija
  - Chabakoviacea
Bija sp.
Bija sp. Vologdin 1932
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
? Girvanella sp.
? Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp.
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886