Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.2° N, 115.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.4° N, 116.6° W (Wright 2013)
When: Ninemile Formation (Pogonip Group), Tulean to Tulean (481.7 - 471.3 Ma)
• "Upper Pogonip formation, about 1200 feet below the Eureka quartzite". This should be the Ninemile Shale now.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper. 1938. Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper 13(8):1-323 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186587: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.06.2017
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Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Tritoechia alta Ulrich and Cooper 1938 |