McCoy Mine area, NE New Pass Range, Fossil Hill Member: Anisian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Balatonitidae
Balatonites cf. shoshonensis Hyatt and Smith 1905
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Favreticeras ransomei (Smith 1914)
Gymnotoceras aff. ginsburgi Bucher 1992
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Halobiidae
Enteropleura jenksi n. sp. Hopkin and McRoberts 2005
recombined as Wallerobia jenksi
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada
Coordinates: 39.9° North, 117.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° North, 41.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Anisian
Age range of interval: 247.2 - 242 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Favret Member:Fossil Hill
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Shoshonensis ammonoid zone, latest Middle Anisian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: dark, organic-rich silty limestone
Environment:offshore shelf
Geology comments: a moderately deep (below storm wave base) basin that was occasionally oxygen-starved
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:62310
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-18 04:56:03 Last modified:2006-07-18 07:56:03
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-18 04:56:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18007. E. K. Hopkin and C. A. McRoberts. 2005. A new Middle Triassic flat clam (Pterioida: Halobiidae) from the Middle Anisian of north-central Nevada, USA. Journal of Paleontology 79(4):796-800 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]