Where: Elko County, Nevada (41.3° N, 114.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 25.5° N, 34.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• middle-late Spathian (Prohungarites and Neopopanoceras beds)
Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone and marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Primary reference: C. P. A. Smith, T. Laville, E. Fara, G. Escarguel, N. Olivier, E. Vennin, N. Goudemand, K. G. Bylund, J. F. Jenks, D. A. Stephen, M. Hautmann, S. Charbonnier, L. J. Krumenacker and A. Brayard. 2021. Exceptional fossil assemblages confirm the existence of complex Early Triassic ecosystems during the early Spathian. Scientific Reports 11(19657) [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211747: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 27.07.2020
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star | |
Crinoidea | |
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Reptilia | |
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Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Ammonoidea indet." = Ammonoida
"Ammonoidea indet." = Ammonoida Haeckel 1866 ammonite | |
Crustacea | |
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Malacostraca | |
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Demospongiae | |
Pseudoleptomitus advenus Botting 2019 demosponge |