Coal Canyon east, SP VII-2, Nevada (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.9° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 62.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Windmill Limestone Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• 394 ft. level

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. E. H. Pedder and M. A. Murphy. 1997. Lochkovian Rugosa of Nevada. Geological Society of America Special Paper 321:341-385 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36956: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on corals, graptolites for age assignement
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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus hercynicus
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Calceolidae
Pararhizophyllum parvulum n. gen. n. sp.
Pararhizophyllum parvulum n. gen. n. sp. Pedder and Murphy 1997 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma sp.
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Stylopleura sp., Mucophyllum oliveri
Stylopleura sp. Merriam 1973 horn coral
Mucophyllum oliveri Merriam 1973 horn coral