Where: Nevada (39.3° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 71.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: High Lake Member (Laketown Dolomite Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lenticular, gray dolomite
Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric,
Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan. 1982. Late Ordovician and Silurian of the eastern Great Basin Part 4. Late Llandovery and Wenlock brachiopods. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 50:1-73 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/Z. Krug]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51520: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 07.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
Davidsoniacea indet. King 1850 | |
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Pentlandella merriami Sheehan 1982 | |
Atrypina erugata Amsden 1968 | |
Spirinella pauciplicata Waite 1956 | |
Cyrtia spp. Dalman 1828 | |
Pentamerida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
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Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
"Dolerorthis" flabellites Foerste 1889 | |
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
"Resserella" sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Dicoelosia biloba Linnaeus 1758 |