Birch Creek, Roberts Mountains III, Nevada (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.9° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.7° S, 62.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Roberts Mountains Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• 638.5 ft.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, 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 36964: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Focus on corals, graptolites for age assignement
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Ptenophyllidae indet. Wedekind 1923 horn coral
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Stylopleura berthiaumi Merriam 1973 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma duncanae Merriam 1973 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
? Egosiella sp. Dubatolov 1955 tabulate coral
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae