Where: Nye County, Nevada (39.1° N, 116.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 80.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Zone N brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• " [...] sponge beds, zone N, of the Pogonip limestone" (Flower, 1964 p. 112); there is only one sponge-bearing lithostratigraphic unit including trilobite zone N in the Pogonip of the northern Toquima Range: the Antelope Valley limestone (see Kay & Crawford, 1964, GSA Bull. 75(5))
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•Called Rhysostrophia zone at one point (Cooper 1956); PJW3 2017-06-28.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the USNM
• RHF = collection of Rousseau H. Flower, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum (see Wolberg, 1990, J. Paleont. 64(3, 5, 6))
Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88946: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 26.04.2009, edited by Björn Kröger and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Adamsoceras isabelae2 Flower 1957 | |
Baltoceras striatum n. sp.
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Strophomenata | |
Aporthophyla typa n. sp.4
Aporthophyla typa n. sp.4 Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
"Taphrodonta parallela n. gen. n. sp." = Taphrodonta (Taphrodonta) parallela1
"Taphrodonta parallela n. gen. n. sp." = Taphrodonta (Taphrodonta) parallela1 Cooper 1956 | |
"Sowerbyella bellarugosa" = Sowerbyella (Rugosowerbyella) bellarugosa4
"Sowerbyella bellarugosa" = Sowerbyella (Rugosowerbyella) bellarugosa4 Ulrich and Cooper 1938 | |
"Leptellina occidentalis n. sp." = Leptellina (Leptellina) occidentalis4, Goniotrema perplexum4, Toquimia kirki n. sp.3
"Leptellina occidentalis n. sp." = Leptellina (Leptellina) occidentalis4 Ulrich and Cooper 1938
Goniotrema perplexum4 Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Toquimia kirki n. sp.3 Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Orthis paucicostata n. sp." = Orthambonites paucicostatus4
"Orthis paucicostata n. sp." = Orthambonites paucicostatus4 Ulrich and Cooper 1938 | |
Anomalorthis nevadensis4 Ulrich and Cooper 1938 | |
Rhysostrophia nevadensis n. sp.4 Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhysostrophia occidentalis n. sp.4 Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
? Porambonites sp.4 Pander 1830 |