Muller Canyon HB 192, Augusta Mountains: Pelsonian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Acrochordiceratidae
Acrochordiceras carolinae von Mojsisovics 1882
Monnet et al. 2010
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Favreticeras wallacei Bucher 1992
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites gradinarui Bucher 1992
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 117.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° North, 41.4° 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: 244.7 - 243.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Favret Member:Fossil Hill
Local section:Muller Canyon (Bucher) Local bed:27.75 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:113707
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:C. Feng, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-04 09:45:38 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-04 09:45:38
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]

Secondary references:

34222 C. Monnet, H. Bucher, M. Wasmer and J. Guex. 2010. Revision of the genus Acrochordiceras Hyatt, 1877 (Ammonoidea, Middle Triassic): morphology, biometry, biostratigraphy, and intra-specific variability. Palaeontology 53(5):961-996 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]