Where: Clark County, Nevada (36.7° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 46.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bird Spring Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)
• Chesterian is equivalent to Serpukhovian at Arrow Canyon according to Bishop et al., 2009 (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 276:217–243
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk, chemical
Primary reference: D. W. Petersen and R. L. Langenheim, Jr. 1984. Spiriferellina lata Lane in the Uppermost Chesterian in the Bird Spring Group at Arrow Canyon, Clark County, Nevada. Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Sciences 77(3 and 4):207-218 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141780: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 01.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferellina lata Lane 1963 |