Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.8° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 89.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eurekia apopsis trilobite zone, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• Latest Sunwaptan
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by C. D. Walcott in 1890; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson and B.L. Stinchcomb. 1987. Recognition of Macluritella (Gastropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Missouri and Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 61(1):56-61 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93574: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hyolithes curvatus | |
"Hyolithes curvatus n. sp." = Spirodentalium walcotti
"Hyolithes curvatus n. sp." = Spirodentalium walcotti Howell 1946 |