Westgate Ridge Section, Horizon 37 (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Churchill County, Nevada (39.3° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 54.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kanense ammonoid zone, Mina Peak Member (Sunrise Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• University of Montana Paleontology Center (UMPC) collection

Primary reference: A. H. Caruthers, P. L. Smith, D. Gröcke, B. C. Gill, T. R. Them and J. P. Trabucho-Alexandre. 2018. Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Ammonoids from the Luning Embayment, West-Central Nevada, U.S.A. Bulletins of American Paleontology 393:1-84 [J. Pálfy/Z. Kostka]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208055: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 18.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Lioceratoides (Lioceratoides) cf. involutum Smith and Tipper 1996 ammonite