Sheeprock Ridge SR-39: Wuchiapingian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"Ramose bryozoa"
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Fenestrata indet. (Elias and Condra 1957)
synonym of Fenestelloidea
"Fenestrate bryozoa"
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia elongata Cooper 1953
"n. ssp."
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita mira (Girty 1899)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Yakovlevia multistriata (Meek 1860)
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Liosotella delicatula Dunbar 1955
recombined as Anemonaria delicatula
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Elko
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 114.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.4° North, 36.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wuchiapingian
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Park City Formation:Gerster
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 39 feet above base of measured section.
Gerster Formation is correlated with the upper Phosphoria Formation (Rex Chert, Retort, Tosi) and other upper units in the Park City Group (Franson, Ervay). Those units are now Lopingian in age, following a latest Capitanian U/Pb age of 260.57 Ma in the upper Meade Peak Member. The upper age of the Gerster is unclear, and it may span much of the Lopingian, although the top is unconformable (overlying units are Smithian) so some or all of the Changhsingian may be missing. For now, all collections are assigned a Wuchiapingian age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:39760
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-05 16:40:48 Last modified:2020-05-18 08:54:44
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-05 16:40:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10679. B. R. Wardlaw. 1977. The biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Gerster Limestone (Upper Permian) in Nevada and Utah. U.S.G.S. Open File Report 77(470):1-125 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]