Candelaria 98-COL-11: Dienerian, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ceratitida
- Paranoritidae
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Vavilovites sp.
Tozer 1971
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1 specimen | ||||||
| Ware and Bucher 2018 | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada |
| Coordinates: | 38.1° North, 118.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 23.9° North, 38.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Induan | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Dienerian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 250.5 - 249.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Candelaria | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 20-25 m thick and approximately 45 m above base of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary lithified carbonaceous "shale" |
| Lithology description: dark bituminous shales, purplish on weathered surfaces, with a few thin beds of impure limestone and early diagenetic concretions | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 120317 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | M. Clapham, B. Allen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-11-10 12:02:08 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-11-10 12:02:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35617. | D. Ware, J. F. Jenks, M. Hautmann and H. Bucher. 2011. Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Candelaria Hills (Nevada, USA) and their significance for palaeobiogeography and palaeoceanography. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104:161-181 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 75560 | D. Ware and H. Bucher. 2018. Systematic palaeontology, in Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India. Fossils and Strata 63:179-241 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |