Favret Canyon HB 167, Augusta Mountains: Pelsonian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Balatonitidae
Balatonites shoshonensis Hyatt and Smith 1905
11 specimens
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Favreticeras rieberi Bucher 1992
19 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Constrigymnites robertsi Bucher 1992
5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites densistriatus Bucher 1992
4 specimens
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 117.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.1° North, 41.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Pelsonian Ammonoid zone: shoshonensis
Age range of interval:244.70000 - 243.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Favret Member:Fossil Hill
Local section:Favret Canyon (Bucher) Local bed:56.1 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:113672
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:C. Feng
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-04 08:50:13 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-04 08:50:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36784. H. Bucher. 1992. Ammonoids of the Shoshonensis Zone (Middle Anisian, Middle Triassic) from northwestern Nevada (USA). Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 135:425-465 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/M. Clapham]