Also known as Reef 4335
Where: Esmeralda County, Nevada (37.4° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 95.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Poleta Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: S. B. Pruss, M. L. Slaymaker, E. F. Smith, A. Y. Zhuravlev, and D. A. Fike. 2021. Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA. Facies 67(14) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 218892: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 03.03.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Hyolithellus insolitus Voronin et al. 1982 | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Sphenothallus sp. Hall 1847 | |
| Archaeocyatha | |
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Robustocyathellus sp. Konyushkov 1972 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Ethmophyllum whitneyi Meek 1868 archaeocyath sponge
? Cordilleracyathus sp. Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge | |
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? Metacyathellus sp. Debrenne and Zhuravlev 1990 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Protopharetra junensis Zhuravleva 1987 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Archaeocyathus arborensis Okulitch 1954 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Claruscoscinus sp. Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Williamicyathus colvillensis Greggs 1959 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Gatagacyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |