Where: Nevada (40.5° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 42.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Star Peak Group, Anisian to Anisian (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)
• Upper part of Middle Triassic, Star Peak series
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: P. Davidson. 1919. A cestraciont spine from the Middle Triassic of Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 11(4):433-435 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136685: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Cosmacanthus humboldtensis n. sp." = Pyknotylacanthus humboldtensis
"Cosmacanthus humboldtensis n. sp." = Pyknotylacanthus humboldtensis Davidson 1919 elasmobranch |