New York Canyon Entrance Section, Horizon 2: Early Pliensbachian, Nevada

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

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Mineral County
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 118.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.9° North, 44.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2
Key time interval: Early Pliensbachian Ammonoid zone:  Freboldi
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sunrise Member:Joker Peak
Local section:New York Canyon Entrance Section Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:deep-water indet. Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: University of Montana Paleontology Center (UMPC) collection
Metadata
Database number:207930
Authorizer:J. Pálfy Enterer:D. Juhász
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-03-03 07:21:37 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2022-03-03 07:21:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
67855. A. H. Caruthers, P. L. Smith, D. Gröcke, B. C. Gill, T. R. Them and J. P. Trabucho-Alexandre. 2018. Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Ammonoids from the Luning Embayment, West-Central Nevada, U.S.A. Bulletins of American Paleontology 393:1-84 [J. Pálfy/Z. Kostka]