Pilot Mountains locality MC unit 14 (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Nevada (38.4° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 54.2° W)
When: lower Member (Luning Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• 20.6 m thick
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray shale
• Shale, light-gray, fissile
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: G. D. Stanley, Jr. 1979. Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 65:1-68 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100403: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 09.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Reptilia | |
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Ichthyosaurus sp. Koenig 1818 ichthyosaur | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884 ammonite | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |