Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.6° N, 115.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 14.0° N, 36.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Loray Formation, Kungurian (283.3 - 274.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: T. V. Mayou. 1967. Paleontology of the Permian Loray Formation in White Pine County, Nevada. Brigham Young University Research Studies, Geology Series 14:101-122 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38744: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana obesa" = Polidevcia obesa
"Nuculana obesa" = Polidevcia obesa White 1879 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Plagioglypta canna" = Prodentalium canna
"Plagioglypta canna" = Prodentalium canna White 1874 tusk shell | |
Strophomenata | |
Costellarina kaasai Yancey 1978 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |