USNM 10761. Horse Creek Valley Quadrangle, northern Simpson Park Range: Emsian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena informal sp. C Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythynidae
Elythyna informal sp. A Rzhonsnitskaya
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella cf. textilis Talent 1963
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Leptocoelia infrequens (Walcott 1884)
recombined as Pacificocoelia infrequens
Leptocoelia infrequens infrequens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea fagerholmi Johnson 1970
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina informal sp. C Havlicek 1953
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Eureka
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 116.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° South, 54.9° West
Altitude:6560 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Emsian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 2
Key time interval:Emsian Brachiopod zone: Leptocoelia infrequens
Age range of interval:407.60000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:McColley Canyon Member:Eurekaspirifer pinyonensis Zone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Leptocoelia infrequens subzone of Eurekaspirifer pinyonensis Zone Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Also known as:4816, J37-4
Database number:164734
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-12-14 22:44:27 Last modified:2014-12-14 23:16:05
Access level:the public Released:2014-12-14 22:44:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46256. J. G. Johnson. 1970. Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper (131)1-421 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]