USGS 26252-PC (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Area 3, South San Antonio Range

Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.2° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.0° S, 51.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cavusgnathus altus - Hindeodus penescitulus zone, unnamed carbonate unit Member, Meramecian (343.0 - 335.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone and packstone

• Corals are silicified or calcitic.
• light gray weathering crinoidal biomicrite (wackestone and packstone).

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. J. Sando. 1993. Coralliferous carbonate shelves of Mississippian age, west side of Antler Orogen, central Nevada. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1988-F:1-34 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6293: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.02.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Mametella sp.
Mametella sp. Brenckle 1977
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Priscella sp., Endothyranopsis scitula, Endothyra sp., Endothyranella sp.
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia sp.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Canadiphyllum sp.
Canadiphyllum sp. Sutherland 1954 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron cf. sinuosum, Siphonodendron cf. whitneyi
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Pleurosiphonella sp.
Pleurosiphonella sp. Chudinova 1970 tabulate coral
morphogroup A of Sando 1984