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

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