Coal Canyon, Simpson Park Range, SP VII UCR 8785: Early/Lower Devonian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Buchanosteid indet.
Buchanosteid-type scale
Placodermi indet.
othey types
Crossopterygian indet.
Chondrichthyes - Ischnacanthiformes - Ischnacanthidae
? Gomphonchus sp. Gross 1971
Gomphonchus-type scale
Chondrichthyes - Climatiiformes - Climatiidae
? Nostolepis sp. Pander 1856
Nostolepis-type scale
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 116.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° South, 58.1° West
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1-2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Devonian Conodont zone: delta
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Windmill Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: interbedded with basinal graptolitic shales of the Monograptus praehercynicus and M. hercynicus Zones
Table 1: Graptolite Zone hercynicus
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: beds interpreted as turbidites, or otherwise transported sediments, which are interbedded with basinal graptolitic shales
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:SP VII of Berry & Murphy (1975)
Database number:216495
Authorizer:B. Seuss Enterer:B. Seuss
Modifier:B. Seuss Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2020-12-15 06:20:24 Last modified:2020-12-16 00:46:12
Access level:the public Released:2020-12-15 06:20:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
74795. S. Turner and M.A. Murphy. 1988. Early Devonian vertebrate microfossils from the Simpson Park Range, Eureka County, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 62(6):959-964 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]