Ninemile Shale, Whiterock Canyon, Table D.51: Arenig, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhombifera
Rhombifera sp. Zittel 1879
6 specimens
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida
? Leperditicopida indet. Scott 1961
1 specimen
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Protopresbynileus sp. Hintze 1954
3 specimens
Lachnostoma sp. Ross 1951
45 specimens
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. (Dalman 1827)
8 specimens
original and current combination Asaphus (Ampyx)
Agnostida
Agnostida indet. Salter 1864
3 specimens
Polychaeta - Phyllodocida
Machaeridia indet.
6 specimens
Lingulata - Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
? Schizambon sp. Walcott 1884
2 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
? Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
71 specimens
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
? Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
12 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
? Syntrophina sp.
3 specimens
Stenolaemata
Stenolaemata indet. Borg 1926
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
? Peelerophon sp. Yochelson 1982
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 116.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.4° South, 82.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Arenig
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Pogonip Formation:Ninemile
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: approx. 8 m below whiterockian/ibexian boundary
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green lithified mudstone
Secondary lithology:lenticular,gray lithified lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Abundance in sediment:common
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:64601
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-10 16:56:38 Last modified:2023-09-05 14:41:51
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-10 16:56:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13544. S. E. Peters. 2003. Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective. The University of Chicago 1-279 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]