USGS 7301-SD, Funeral Mountains (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as JFM64520C

Where: Inyo County, California (36.3° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 58.3° W)

When: h6 Member (Hidden Valley Dolomite Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Hidden Valley Dolomite, upper member, interval 35-50 ft below top of formation in measured section

Environment/lithology: gray, cherty/siliceous dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate, replaced with dolomite, replaced with silica

Collected by J. F. McAllister in 1964; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. F. McAllister. 1974. Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1386:1-35 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225967: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 09.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus symmetricus Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont
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Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Stauriida - Halliidae
Papiliophyllum elegantulum Stumm 1937 horn coral