Dutch John Mountain (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (38.4° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.7° S, 51.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Joana Limestone Member (White Pine Shale Formation), Kinderhookian to Kinderhookian (358.9 - 343.0 Ma)

• Name of the formation is in debate (according to this paper). Either Joana Limestone is a member of the White Pine Shale or it is a formation of its own. Eastern NV stratigraphic subcommittee recommended the former.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• dark gray to medium gray in color, medium to coarse textured (crystalline and clastic), highly fossiliferous (including an abundance of criquina, thin bedded to massive.

Primary reference: G. V. Chilingar and H. J. Bissell. 1957. Mississippian Joana Limestone of Cordilleran miogeosyncline and use of Ca/Mg ratio in correlation. Bulleting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(10):2257-2274 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5752: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 19.11.1999

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina sp. d'Orbigny 1847
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris lamellosa Léveillé 1835
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes logani Norwood and Pratten 1855
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Euomphalus aff. spergenensis" = Straparollus spergenensis
"Euomphalus aff. spergenensis" = Straparollus spergenensis Hall 1856 snail
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Exochops portlocki Meek and Worthen 1865 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Syringopora surcularia Girty 1899 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Lithostrotionella castelnaui Hayasaka 1936 horn coral