Level M-10, Muller Canyon section 6: Planorbis, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Mineral
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 118.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.2° North, 45.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Hettangian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1
Key time interval: Planorbis Ammonoid zone:  Psiloceras pacificum
Age range of interval: 201.4 - 199.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sunrise Member:Ferguson Hill
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Musée de Géologie de Lausanne
Metadata
Database number:188598
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-09-10 21:47:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-09-10 21:47:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
63270. J. Guex. 1995. Ammonites hettangiennes de la Gabbs Valley Range (Nevada, USA). Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne) 27:1-131 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]