Where: Mineral County, Nevada (38.5° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 55.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muller Canyon Member (Gabbs Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• lower part of Muller Canyon member; latest Rhaetian; unit 88 (total thickness: 30cm)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, D. G. Taylor, J. Guex, L. H. Tanner, and K. Krainer. 2007. The proposed global stratotype section and point for the base of the Jurassic system in the New York Canyon area, Nevada, USA. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin (40)139-168 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76610: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |
unclassified | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Choristoceras crickmayi Tozer 1979 ceratite | |
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unclassified | |
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Conodonta | |
Conodonta indet. conodont | |
Reptilia | |
Ichthyosauria indet. ichthyosaur |