Butte Mountains, Unit 3: Kungurian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Fenestellidae
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Fenestella sp.
Lonsdale 1839
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rare category | |||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Stenoporidae
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Tabulipora sp.
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rare category | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Aulostegidae
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Costellaria costellata
Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
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abundant category | |||||||||
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= Costellarina kaasai
Yancey 1978
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Yancey 1978 | |||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Prodentaliidae
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Plagioglypta canna
(White 1874)
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common category | |||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | White Pine |
| Coordinates: | 39.6° North, 115.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.0° North, 36.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Kungurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 283.5 - 273.01 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Loray | ||
| Local section: | Butte Mountains | Local bed: | 3 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Ostracodes common, crinoid ossicles rare, echinoid fragments rare | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 38743 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Bottjer | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-05-03 12:12:32 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-03 12:12:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10420. | T. V. Mayou. 1967. Paleontology of the Permian Loray Formation in White Pine County, Nevada. Brigham Young University Research Studies, Geology Series 14:101-122 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 16473 | T. E. Yancey. 1978. Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves. Bulletins of American Paleontology 74(303):257-367 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham] |